diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/mbrola/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/mbrola/default.nix
index befa0ac206c3..a21495027c86 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/mbrola/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/mbrola/default.nix
@@ -1,42 +1,72 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ stdenv, stdenvNoCC, lib, symlinkJoin, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
 let
-  voices = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "numediart";
-    repo = "MBROLA-voices";
-    rev = "fe05a0ccef6a941207fd6aaad0b31294a1f93a51";  # using latest commit
-    sha256 = "1w0y2xjp9rndwdjagp2wxh656mdm3d6w9cs411g27rjyfy1205a0";
-  };
-in
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "mbrola";
   version = "3.3";
 
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "numediart";
-    repo = "MBROLA";
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "1w86gv6zs2cbr0731n49z8v6xxw0g8b0hzyv2iqb9mqcfh38l8zy";
-  };
-
-  # required for cross compilation
-  makeFlags = [ "CC=${stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc" ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    runHook preInstall
-    install -D Bin/mbrola $out/bin/mbrola
-
-    # TODO: package separately because it's very big
-    install -d $out/share/mbrola/voices
-    cp -R ${voices}/data/* $out/share/mbrola/voices/
-    runHook postInstall
-  '';
-
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA";
     license = licenses.agpl3Plus;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ davidak ];
     platforms = platforms.linux;
+    description = "Speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA";
   };
+
+  voices = stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
+    pname = "${pname}-voices";
+    inherit version;
+
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "numediart";
+      repo = "MBROLA-voices";
+      rev = "fe05a0ccef6a941207fd6aaad0b31294a1f93a51";  # using latest commit
+      sha256 = "1w0y2xjp9rndwdjagp2wxh656mdm3d6w9cs411g27rjyfy1205a0";
+    };
+
+    dontBuild = true;
+    installPhase = ''
+      runHook preInstall
+      install -d $out/share/mbrola/voices
+      cp -R $src/data/* $out/share/mbrola/voices/
+      runHook postInstall
+    '';
+    dontFixup = true;
+
+    meta = meta // {
+      description = "Speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones (voice files)";
+      homepage = "https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices";
+    };
+  };
+
+  bin = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+    pname = "${pname}-bin";
+    inherit version;
+
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "numediart";
+      repo = "MBROLA";
+      rev = version;
+      sha256 = "1w86gv6zs2cbr0731n49z8v6xxw0g8b0hzyv2iqb9mqcfh38l8zy";
+    };
+
+    # required for cross compilation
+    makeFlags = [ "CC=${stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc" ];
+
+    installPhase = ''
+      runHook preInstall
+      install -D Bin/mbrola $out/bin/mbrola
+      rm -rf $out/share/mbrola/voices/*
+      runHook postInstall
+    '';
+
+    meta = meta // {
+      description = "Speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones (binary only)";
+    };
+  };
+
+in
+symlinkJoin {
+  inherit pname version meta;
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  paths = [ bin voices ];
 }