diff --git a/app-accessibility/espeak/espeak-1.48.04.recipe b/app-accessibility/espeak/espeak-1.48.04.recipe
index 15f394114..0b4c1745b 100644
--- a/app-accessibility/espeak/espeak-1.48.04.recipe
+++ b/app-accessibility/espeak/espeak-1.48.04.recipe
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ which are based on human speech recordings."
 HOMEPAGE="http://espeak.sourceforge.net/"
 COPYRIGHT="2005-2014 Jonathan Duddington"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
-REVISION="6"
+REVISION="7"
 SOURCE_URI="http://sourceforge.net/projects/espeak/files/espeak/espeak-1.48/espeak-${portVersion}-source.zip"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="bf9a17673adffcc28ff7ea18764f06136547e97bbd9edf2ec612f09b207f0659"
 SOURCE_DIR="espeak-${portVersion}-source"
@@ -71,5 +71,9 @@ INSTALL()
 		DATADIR=$dataDir/espeak-data \
 		INCDIR=$includeDir/espeak \
 		install
+
+	# remove static library
+	rm $libDir/libespeak.a
+
 	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libespeak
 }