diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 727fd2091c99..2bbb56aab5ee 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@
   desiderius = "Didier J. Devroye <didier@devroye.name>";
   devhell = "devhell <\"^\"@regexmail.net>";
   dezgeg = "Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi>";
+  dfordivam = "Divam <dfordivam+nixpkgs@gmail.com>";
   dfoxfranke = "Daniel Fox Franke <dfoxfranke@gmail.com>";
   dgonyeo = "Derek Gonyeo <derek@gonyeo.com>";
   dipinhora = "Dipin Hora <dipinhora+github@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/openfst/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/openfst/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..690261438ab9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/openfst/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  pname = "openfst";
+  version = "1.6.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.openfst.org/twiki/pub/FST/FstDownload/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "5c28b6ccd017fc6ff94ebd0c73ed8ab37d48f563dab1c603856fb05bc9333d99";
+  };
+  meta = {
+    description = "Library for working with finite-state transducers";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Library for constructing, combining, optimizing, and searching weighted finite-state transducers (FSTs).
+      FSTs have key applications in speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, optical character recognition,
+      pattern matching, string processing, machine learning, information extraction and retrieval among others
+    '';
+    homepage = http://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/FST/WebHome;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.dfordivam ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9e8f4a853e98..3a881d28e516 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -19225,6 +19225,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   xtermcontrol = callPackage ../applications/misc/xtermcontrol {};
 
+  openfst = callPackage ../development/libraries/openfst {};
+
   # `recurseIntoAttrs` for sake of hydra, not nix-env
   tests = recurseIntoAttrs {
     macOSSierraShared = callPackage ../test/macos-sierra-shared {};