diff --git a/package/speechd/speechd.mk b/package/speechd/speechd.mk
index dee94a6752..ec62980986 100644
--- a/package/speechd/speechd.mk
+++ b/package/speechd/speechd.mk
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SPEECHD_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.GPL-2 COPYING.GPL-3 COPYING.LGPL
 SPEECHD_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 # speechd source code is released without configure script
 SPEECHD_AUTORECONF = YES
+SPEECHD_GETTEXTIZE = YES
 SPEECHD_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf dotconf libglib2 libsndfile
 SPEECHD_CONF_ENV = ac_cv_prog_HELP2MAN=""
 SPEECHD_CONF_OPTS = --without-kali