Robotman,

Lets see the easiest way to check is to see what software you have installed. So, if you open synaptic package manager, and do a quick search for "speech" a whole bunch of neat stuff should appear off to the upper left hand corner with a description in the lower left portion of the window. If you scroll through the list, at around the letter K you should see kmouth, ksayit, and kttsd. Make sure these have all been checked. Also, at around the letter F there should be festival too, so make sure it is installed as well.

The search results should list a bunch of goodies, including other speech synthesis software which will produce other voices. You may find these useful ... "eflite", "espeak", "flite". (Commercial software is also available to provide even more voices).

After apply the changes and installing the software you should be able to open KTTSD, by going to Applications->Accesbility->kttsmgr. First K you should see kmouth, ksayit, and kttsd. Make sure these have all been checked. Also, at around the letter F there should be festival too, so make sure it is installed as well.

Hope that this helps
- Joann