diff --git a/festival.spec b/festival.spec
index 7818fe0..2ec4f53 100644
--- a/festival.spec
+++ b/festival.spec
@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ Patch95: gcc44.patch
 BuildRequires: tetex
 BuildRequires: ncurses-devel, esound-devel
 
-Requires: festival-voice
+# Requires: festival-voice
+# The hard dep below provides a festival-voice, no need to require it here.
 
 # This is hard-coded as a requirement because it's the smallest voice (and,
 # subjectively I think the most pleasant to listen to and so a good
@@ -809,6 +810,10 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 24 2009 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 1.96-10
+- Drop the explicit dep on festival-voice, as it is redundant and
+  causes problems with multiple providers
+
 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com> 1.96-10
 - Fix build with gcc 4.4