diff --git a/packages/audio/speex/package.mk b/packages/audio/speex/package.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c4e603b469
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/audio/speex/package.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="speex"
+PKG_VERSION="1.2rc2"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
+PKG_SITE="http://downloads.us.xiph.org/releases/speex"
+#PKG_URL="$DISTRO_SRC/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_URL="$PKG_SITE/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="audio"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="Speex / OPUS audio codec"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Speex / OPUS audio codec"
+
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
diff --git a/packages/multimedia/ffmpeg/package.mk b/packages/multimedia/ffmpeg/package.mk
index 93b8cb42d3..6ea5768757 100644
--- a/packages/multimedia/ffmpeg/package.mk
+++ b/packages/multimedia/ffmpeg/package.mk
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPLv2.1+"
 PKG_SITE="https://ffmpeg.org"
 PKG_URL="https://ffmpeg.org/releases/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain yasm:host zlib bzip2 libvorbis libressl dcadec"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain yasm:host zlib bzip2 libvorbis libressl dcadec speex"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="multimedia"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video."
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ configure_target() {
               --disable-libopenjpeg \
               --disable-librtmp \
               --disable-libschroedinger \
-              --disable-libspeex \
+              --enable-libspeex \
               --disable-libtheora \
               --disable-libvo-aacenc \
               --disable-libvo-amrwbenc \