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lookidok: What is the OS and version where you have the issue?

It was Kodibuntu but my laptop uses Debian, both on Kodi 14.2 . I am not sure but I have a feeling pulseaudio has something to do with it but I cannot understand why because festival flite speed-dispatcher and even the http server all worked.

On my laptop works fine so I am assuming a native build will work as well. I have decided to take a punt with WeTek Play and try it with that. Like I say I was surprised it failed but confused it failed only with Google as a speech engine.

But if it works on my laptop it must be a localised issue with that particular machine. As I was only using that machine for testing on it is not a show stopper. I will try get it working on the WeTek and hopefully it will work.

Still think this is a fantastic plugin and really appreciate it smoothness to configure.

The Google backend needs an mp3 player to work, so it doesn't work on Android (ie Wetek) or OpenElec. The problem is likely with whatever mp3 player the backend is using. You can change the player in settings. Supported players on Linux are mpg123, mpg321, mplayer and SOX (w/mp3 support installed).