diff --git a/audio/audio-encoder-lame/src/main/java/org/daisy/pipeline/audio/lame/impl/LameEncoderService.java b/audio/audio-encoder-lame/src/main/java/org/daisy/pipeline/audio/lame/impl/LameEncoderService.java
index 49565f51a..1f636a2f4 100644
--- a/audio/audio-encoder-lame/src/main/java/org/daisy/pipeline/audio/lame/impl/LameEncoderService.java
+++ b/audio/audio-encoder-lame/src/main/java/org/daisy/pipeline/audio/lame/impl/LameEncoderService.java
@@ -47,16 +47,22 @@ public Optional<AudioEncoder> newEncoder(Map<String,String> params) {
 	private static LameEncoder.LameEncodingOptions parseEncodingOptions(Map<String,String> params) {
 		LameEncoder.LameEncodingOptions opts = new LameEncoder.LameEncodingOptions();
 		opts.cliOptions = new String[0];
-		String cliextra = params.get("org.daisy.pipeline.tts.lame.cli.options");
-		if (cliextra != null) {
-			opts.cliOptions = cliextra.split(" ");
+		{
+			String prop = "org.daisy.pipeline.tts.lame.cli.options";
+			String cliOptions = params.get(prop);
+			if (cliOptions != null) {
+				logger.warn("'" + prop + "' setting is deprecated. It may become unavailable in future version of DAISY Pipeline.");
+				opts.cliOptions = cliOptions.split(" ");
+			}
 		}
-		String lamePathProp = "org.daisy.pipeline.tts.lame.path";
-		opts.binpath = params.get(lamePathProp);
-		if (opts.binpath == null) {
-			Optional<String> lpath = BinaryFinder.find("lame");
-			if (lpath.isPresent())
-				opts.binpath = lpath.get();
+		{
+			String prop = "org.daisy.pipeline.tts.lame.path";
+			opts.binpath = params.get(prop);
+			if (opts.binpath == null) {
+				Optional<String> lpath = BinaryFinder.find("lame");
+				if (lpath.isPresent())
+					opts.binpath = lpath.get();
+			}
 		}
 		return opts;
 	}
diff --git a/tts/tts-common/doc/index.md b/tts/tts-common/doc/index.md
index cda058ceb..533ade697 100644
--- a/tts/tts-common/doc/index.md
+++ b/tts/tts-common/doc/index.md
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ tts-adapter-attbin:
 
 `org.daisy.pipeline.tts.lame.cli.options`
 : Additional command line options passed to lame
+: Deprecated
 
 ## CSS