diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/webrtc-audio-processing/0.3.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/webrtc-audio-processing/0.3.nix
index a1bd7ea4b7a3..27f9ebba3368 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/webrtc-audio-processing/0.3.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/webrtc-audio-processing/0.3.nix
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     substituteInPlace webrtc/base/checks.cc --replace 'defined(__UCLIBC__)' 1
   '';
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/webrtc-audio-processing";
     description = "A more Linux packaging friendly copy of the AudioProcessing module from the WebRTC project";