diff --git a/recipes-extended/speech-tools/speech-tools_2.3.bb b/recipes-extended/speech-tools/speech-tools_2.3.bb
index 6945d49..8540099 100644
--- a/recipes-extended/speech-tools/speech-tools_2.3.bb
+++ b/recipes-extended/speech-tools/speech-tools_2.3.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The Edinburgh Speech Tools Library"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;md5=9fe1b4db906b7d75f821c72a358638fd"
 
-DEPENDS = "alsa-lib"
+DEPENDS = "alsa-lib ncurses"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://tts.speech.cs.cmu.edu/awb/20130703/speech_tools-${PV}-current.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "02863b3ead04a0ade65982a1f34a60bb"