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, including instances where Kate is embedded in another KDE application
• Speak all or any portion of an HTML page from Konqueror
• Use as the speech backend for KMouth and KSayIt
• Speak KDE notifications (KNotify)
• User-configurable filters for substituting misspoken words, choosing speech synthesizers, and transforming XHMTL/XML documents

Programmer Features:

• Priority system for screen reader outputs, warnings and messages, while still playing regular texts
• Permit generation of speech from the command line (or via shell scripts) using the qdbus utility
• Provide a lightweight and easily usable interface for applications to generate speech output
• Applications need not be concerned about contention over the speech device
• FUTURE: Provide support for speech markup languages, such as VoiceXML, Sable, Java Speech Markup Language (JSML), and Speech Markup Meta-language (SMML)
• FUTURE: Provide limited support for embedded speech markers
• Asynchronous to prevent system blocking