diff --git a/app-text/stardict/metadata.xml b/app-text/stardict/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 37e88a3d..00000000
--- a/app-text/stardict/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>martin@mvath.de</email>
-		<name>Martin Väth</name>
-		<description>maintainer of the updates in the mv overlay</description>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>bircoph@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Andrew Savchenko</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription>
-	StarDict is an international dictionary Software. It has powerful features
-	such as "Glob-style pattern matching", "Scan selection word," "Fuzzy
-	query," etc. Stardict Version3.0 has developed a lot of new functions, such
-	as Full-text translation, Net Dict.
-	</longdescription>
-	<use>
-		<flag name="advertisement">Enable stardict advertisements plugin</flag>
-		<flag name="cal">Enable calendar support using cal program</flag>
-		<flag name="canberra">Use libcanberra for sound playing</flag>
-		<flag name="dictdotcn">Enable dict.cn network plugin (for Chinese language)</flag>
-		<flag name="espeak">Enable text to speech synthesizer plugin using
-			<pkg>app-accessibility/espeak</pkg> engine</flag>
-		<flag name="flite">Enable text to speech synthesizer plugin using
-			<pkg>app-accessibility/flite</pkg> engine</flag>
-		<flag name="fortune">Enable plugin to read fortune messages using
-			<pkg>games-misc/fortune-mod</pkg>. You may consider installing
-			<pkg>games-misc/fortune-mod-all</pkg> to get all fortune messages.</flag>
-		<flag name="gucharmap">Enable plugin for unicode symbols description using
-			<pkg>gnome-extra/gucharmap</pkg></flag>
-		<flag name="htmlparse">Enable plugin to parse dictionaries with html content</flag>
-		<flag name="info">Enable plugin to read info pages</flag>
-		<flag name="man">Enable plugin to read manual pages</flag>
-		<flag name="powerwordparse">Enable plugin to parse powerword dictionaries</flag>
-		<flag name="pronounce">Install WyabdcRealPeopleTTS package (it is just many .wav files)
-			to make StarDict pronounce English words</flag>
-		<flag name="qqwry">Enable QQWry plugin, which provides information (in Chinese language)
-			about geographical positions, owner, etc. for IP addresses</flag>
-		<flag name="tools">Build and install dictionary management tools and converters from
-			various dictionary formats</flag>
-		<flag name="updateinfo">Enable plugin to check for stardict updates</flag>
-		<flag name="wikiparse">Enable plugin to parse dictionaries in wikimedia format</flag>
-		<flag name="wordnet">Enable wordnet plugin to find similar English words using
-			lexical database</flag>
-		<flag name="xdxfparse">Enable plugin to parse dictionaries in xdxf (XML Dictionary
-			eXchange Format)</flag>
-		<flag name="youdaodict">Enable youdao.com network plugin (for Chinese language)</flag>
-	</use>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="sourceforge">stardict-4</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-text/stardict/stardict-4.0.0_pre20170304-r1.ebuild b/app-text/stardict/stardict-4.0.0_pre20170304-r1.ebuild
index c5ab9b37..0db2035c 100644
--- a/app-text/stardict/stardict-4.0.0_pre20170304-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/stardict/stardict-4.0.0_pre20170304-r1.ebuild
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ COMMON_DEPEND="
 	x11-libs/gtk+:3
 	x11-libs/libX11
 	x11-libs/pango
-	espeak? ( >=app-accessibility/espeak-1.29 )
+	espeak? ( >=app-accessibility/espeak-ng-1.29 )
 	flite? ( app-accessibility/flite )
 	gucharmap? ( gnome-extra/gucharmap:2.90= )
 	spell? ( >=app-text/enchant-1.2:0= )