diff --git a/pkgs/tools/audio/nanotts/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/audio/nanotts/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d05fdf6c52c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/audio/nanotts/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoconf, automake, libtool, popt, alsaLib }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "nano-tts";
+  version = "unstable-2021-02-22";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    repo = "nanotts";
+    owner = "gmn";
+    rev = "d8b91f3d9d524c30f6fe8098ea7a0a638c889cf9";
+    sha256 = "sha256-bFu3U50zc90iQeWkqOsCipkueJUZI3cW5342jjYSnGI=";
+  };
+
+  strictDeps = true;
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake libtool ];
+  buildInputs = [ popt alsaLib ];
+
+  patchPhase = ''
+    substituteInPlace "src/main.cpp" --replace "/usr/share/pico/lang" "$out/share/lang"
+    echo "" > update_build_version.sh
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    install -Dm755 -t $out/bin nanotts
+    install -Dm644 -t $out/share/lang $src/lang/*
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Speech synthesizer commandline utility that improves pico2wave, included with SVOX PicoTTS";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/gmn/nanotts";
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.strikerlulu ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2dd27171968e..bd5104ac9bf2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -19731,6 +19731,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   nanovna-saver = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/science/electronics/nanovna-saver { };
 
+  nanotts = callPackage ../tools/audio/nanotts { };
+
   ncnn = callPackage ../development/libraries/ncnn { };
 
   ndpi = callPackage ../development/libraries/ndpi { };