diff --git a/orca.changes b/orca.changes
index eeb5391..2b86641 100644
--- a/orca.changes
+++ b/orca.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 24 15:50:30 UTC 2017 - mgorse@suse.com
+
+- Change brltty back to Recommends. It isn't required if only
+  speech is being used, and it might be desirable for it not to be
+  pulled in in some cases (boo#1063172). 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Sep 15 22:22:02 UTC 2017 - luc14n0@linuxmail.org
 
diff --git a/orca.spec b/orca.spec
index 83d9a44..2e6995c 100644
--- a/orca.spec
+++ b/orca.spec
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gstreamer-1.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(pygobject-3.0) >= 3.10
 # the gsettings tool is used to know if a11y is enabled
 Requires:       glib2-tools
+Recommends:     brltty >= 3.9
 # pyatspi is a virtual name that is provided by the default at-spi stack
-Requires:       brltty >= 3.9
 Requires:       py3atspi
 Requires:       python3-brlapi
 Requires:       python3-gobject