Version: kdeaccessibility-4.4.2-1.fc13.x86_64 (using KDE 4.4.2) Compiler: gcc-4.4.3-16.fc13.x86_64 OS: Linux Installed from: Fedora RPMs When I select accessibility/test-to-speech/basic in system settings, at the bottom it says "kttsd is not running". No matter whether I tick the box or not, it is nver running. Even if I try to start it manually from the command line, it is not runnig. When I reboot, the box to enable kttsd will again be deselected, and as mentioned, I can use whatever means known to me and it will not run. On the talkers page, when I select 'add', a window opens with no name and no voices. I am unable to select a voice. I can run festival from the command line and I have a number of voices installed and it works as it should. This problem has existed since kde4.0 was released and may even date back to the later kde3.4 or kde3.5 releases (somewhere in fedora 8 or 9, perhaps). I have reported the bug in redhat bugzilla, but there has been no progress whatsoever. Refer to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569531.
Having exactly the same on gentoo, with KDE 4.4.5 and Festival 2.0.95_beta. This thing has been going on for a while now, basically since I installed KDE 4. In an IRC conversation I was told that there is a suspicion about pulseaudio being involved, if such is the case, I can confirm using system-wide use flags "semantic-desktop jack theora xinerama postgres sdl glitz xcb dbus hal wxwidgets avahi X cairo vnc qt4 kde dvdr dvd alsa cdr wavpack vorbis ogg mpeg mp3 shorten jpeg jpeg2k exif ffmpeg jbig gstreamer graphviz gd fontconfig gps pdf lvm lirc webcam v4l2 usb userlocales unicode truetype win32codecs quicktime python pulseaudio speex nas mime lm_sensors hddtemp cups ieee1394 dv vcd css crypt clamav cdparanoia branding bidi audiofile apache2 aac a52 gphoto2 raw png gif tiff svg audio wifi zlib xml tokenizer spl sockets rss nls ncurses idn icu icq flac firefox java"
Forgot to add that I obviously checked that kttsd IS running, and actually it must be, since it is in rc-update default.