diff --git a/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/espeak-ng-1.50.ebuild b/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/espeak-ng-1.50.ebuild
index 912edc5454..fb68cea738 100644
--- a/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/espeak-ng-1.50.ebuild
+++ b/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/espeak-ng-1.50.ebuild
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ src_configure() {
 		--disable-rpath
 }
 
+src_compile() {
+	emake -j1
+}
+
 src_test() {
 	emake check
 }