Hello, I think the patch should be updated to:
diff -Nru speechd-el-2.8/debian/control speechd-el-2.8/debian/control
--- speechd-el-2.8/debian/control 2016-11-10 19:24:33.000000000 +0000
+++ speechd-el-2.8/debian/control 2019-07-29 07:03:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
Package: speechd-el
Architecture: all
-Depends: emacs25 | emacs24, make, base-files (>= 4.0.1), emacsen-common (>=
2.0.8), ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: emacs | emacs-gtk | emacs-lucid | emacs-nox | emacsen, make,
base-files (>= 4.0.1), emacsen-common (>= 2.0.8), ${misc:Depends}
Recommends: sharutils
Suggests: speech-dispatcher, speechd-el-doc-cs, brltty (>= 3.7.2)
Description: Emacs speech client using Speech Dispatcher
