Description:

KTTS -- KDE Text-to-Speech -- is a subsystem within the KDE desktop for
conversion of text to audible speech. KTTS is currently under development
and aims to become the standard subsystem for all KDE applications
to provide speech output.
User Features:
_ Speak any text from the KDE clipboard.
_ Speak any plain text file.
_ Speak all or any portion of a text file from Kate.
_ Speak all or any portion of an HTML page from Konqueror.
_ Use as the speech backend for KMouth and KSayIt.
_ Speak KDE notifications (KNotify).
_ Long text is parsed into sentences. User may backup by sentence or
paragraph, replay, pause, and stop playing.
_ Audio output via aRts or GStreamer (version 0.8.7 or later)