diff --git a/dev-ruby/espeak-ruby/espeak-ruby-1.0.4.ebuild b/dev-ruby/espeak-ruby/espeak-ruby-1.0.4.ebuild
index 251bbd7b0..08d0e4ef3 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/espeak-ruby/espeak-ruby-1.0.4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/espeak-ruby/espeak-ruby-1.0.4.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ USE_RUBY="ruby23 ruby24 ruby25"
 
 inherit ruby-fakegem
 
-DESCRIPTION="espeak-ruby is small Ruby API for utilizing ‘espeak’ and ‘lame’ to create Text-To-Speech mp3 files"
+DESCRIPTION="A small API for utilizing 'espeak' and 'lame' to create Text-To-Speech mp3 files"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/dejan/espeak-ruby"
 SRC_URI="mirror://rubygems/${P}.gem"