diff --git a/audio/py-pyttsx3/Makefile b/audio/py-pyttsx3/Makefile
index bca036497555..67df33c0ffc1 100644
--- a/audio/py-pyttsx3/Makefile
+++ b/audio/py-pyttsx3/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,34 @@
 PORTNAME=	pyttsx3
-DISTVERSION=	2.98
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	2.99
 CATEGORIES=	audio python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	rhurlin@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Offline Text To Speech (TTS) converter for Python
 WWW=		https://github.com/nateshmbhat/pyttsx3
 
 LICENSE=	MPL20
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libespeak.so:audio/espeak-ng
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}flake8>=5.0.0:devel/py-flake8@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}flynt>0:devel/py-flynt@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=0:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pycodestyle>0:devel/py-pycodestyle@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyupgrade>0:devel/py-pyupgrade@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ruff>0:devel/py-ruff@${PY_FLAVOR} 
+#TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}anyio>0:devel/py-anyio@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+#		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pycodestyle>0:devel/py-pycodestyle@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+#		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-forked>0:devel/py-pytest-forked@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+#		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}respx>0:www/py-respx@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+#		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}typeguard>0:devel/py-typeguard@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+#		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ruff>0:devel/py-ruff@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517 #pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/audio/py-pyttsx3/distinfo b/audio/py-pyttsx3/distinfo
index 84129eac0026..1112739e68d4 100644
--- a/audio/py-pyttsx3/distinfo
+++ b/audio/py-pyttsx3/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1727720421
-SHA256 (pyttsx3-2.98.tar.gz) = cc609466151d8c4a69c1c765a945f893c00c1fd2569c2db55e17dc22121e9162
-SIZE (pyttsx3-2.98.tar.gz) = 32052
+TIMESTAMP = 1752044251
+SHA256 (pyttsx3-2.99.tar.gz) = a18a5601530a570c43491b4112887fc34c47e118fc937287db8d21905da1f74e
+SIZE (pyttsx3-2.99.tar.gz) = 33968