diff --git a/pkgs/tools/audio/picotts/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/audio/picotts/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d1b055f1d5f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/audio/picotts/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoconf, automake, libtool, popt }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "picotts-unstable-2018-10-19";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    repo = "picotts";
+    owner = "naggety";
+    rev = "2f86050dc5da9ab68fc61510b594d8e6975c4d2d";
+    sha256 = "1k2mdv9llkh77jr4qr68yf0zgjqk87np35fgfmnc3rpdp538sccl";
+  };
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake ];
+  buildInputs = [ libtool popt ];
+  sourceRoot = "source/pico";
+  preConfigure = "./autogen.sh";
+  meta = {
+    description = "Text to speech voice sinthesizer from SVox.";
+    homepage = https://github.com/naggety/picotts;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.canndrew ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
+
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 465f86e1b76f..9922efdbbfcb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2298,6 +2298,8 @@ in
     inherit (pythonPackages) mutagen python wrapPython;
   };
 
+  picotts = callPackage ../tools/audio/picotts { };
+
   wgetpaste = callPackage ../tools/text/wgetpaste { };
 
   dirmngr = callPackage ../tools/security/dirmngr { };