diff --git a/media-sound/piper/Manifest b/media-sound/piper/Manifest
index dff40c1616..d35ae7a290 100644
--- a/media-sound/piper/Manifest
+++ b/media-sound/piper/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST espeak-ng-1.52.0_p20250322.tar.gz 17815706 BLAKE2B d285492afe81c8cbbb744ff3394022e8fbdff3444ec2cd6a8d315afbdaa35e0238071cd49bcd868f69254223867cbb0e5e28bb778584e0ad072c50f3f81ac4f5 SHA512 1dbdb49441437989811b7bd1177c9c5d5baff229f7214e31e38c40bac7c86d3b94cb10ed5b387e0b81a20b26b4666a91bd62cfad3dcd505343573ffe3fd68b09
 DIST piper-1.4.1.tar.gz 4836371 BLAKE2B 3905c78647dad9add577b2408f4a48505db18f3e164c8061082228e5fc93fcf48da75699b5d2c2669f2eca6f617e7f2524b751958bd1e8e86493a1da32076652 SHA512 0c1ae1585fec2c66cfb39b28e7316b0b471decbcad6fa00964acb8b124692e945f89eb217d0f40ddab34e09aacc11507b4eea14665c0f6c6b48292066269f97d
 DIST piper-1.4.2.tar.gz 4836381 BLAKE2B a50ea179be0e44767e6bec04371516f88e5c89268a5b84dce29041e8a551015179c2e707023e4fe28b7533101bd177979e1aa5ffa8ca0014a2d05cc5e5e274af SHA512 0602ae045b89d96444c22028970b79d0aa6f27c476d75a3cf6b4b7edfd167bb95e744a8fb40077a32fb11f6ed193389c3b7638dd4ec1459fc30e086ee8a09b41
+DIST piper-1.5.0.tar.gz 4881834 BLAKE2B a0d3d354a96f5c7c0554b1ee19329bde82034b569c858b4b37869357beee8dca5adb209655d542a651d52b1551a04b82f224f94e8b00e8d7c259a1dd668df6f9 SHA512 fbe52b03809f5f032711ced9fd29de05999b896ffd21a57f6c98455d1fa6aa6d04e02b8d10a25265a0df490004084a84aaf6541d6621250e2e682bc59d045e8c
diff --git a/media-sound/piper/piper-1.5.0.ebuild b/media-sound/piper/piper-1.5.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6ffa078e83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-sound/piper/piper-1.5.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
+
+inherit cmake distutils-r1
+
+ESPEAK_NG_COMMIT="212928b394a96e8fd2096616bfd54e17845c48f6"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Fast and local neural text-to-speech engine"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+	https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/archive/${ESPEAK_NG_COMMIT}.tar.gz -> espeak-ng-1.52.0_p20250322.tar.gz
+"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/piper1-gpl-${PV}"
+ESPEAK_NG="${WORKDIR}/espeak-ng-${ESPEAK_NG_COMMIT}"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="server"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/pathvalidate[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	media-libs/sonic
+	sci-libs/onnxruntime[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+
+	server? ( dev-python/flask[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/scikit-build[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+# Both of the packages below install `/usr/bin/piper`, and
+# `app-misc/piper` also installs a Python module with the same name
+DEPEND+="
+	!!app-misc/piper
+	!!net-proxy/piper
+"
+
+EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+	tests/test_piper.py::test_load_include_alignments_in_memory
+)
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+
+	# See https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/2048
+	sed 's/160/1024/' -i "${ESPEAK_NG}/src/libespeak-ng/speech.h" || die
+
+	sed \
+	-e "s|GIT_REPOSITORY.*|SOURCE_DIR ${ESPEAK_NG}|" \
+	-e 's|GIT_TAG.*|DOWNLOAD_COMMAND ""|' \
+	-i CMakeLists.txt || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+
+	rm "${ED}/usr/COPYING" || die
+}