jovie won't start regardless of config, talkers not addable

[Rudd-O]

When I enable jovie in systemsettings->accessibility->text to speech->enable text to speech system checkbox, the config file /home/rudd-o/.kde/share/config/kttsdrc gets written and it says enabled true, but when I log back in, the checkbox is disabled. Regardless of what I do in that panel, or whether I launch jovie manually (which does not get remembered by the session manager after logout, might I add), adding talkers is broken (even though my speech dispatcher setup works properly) and the list is empty when I go to add them. KMouth won't speak either.

Halp?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: jovie 4:4.9.3-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-20.31-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 8 22:26:25 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-23 (352 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: jovie
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-12-10 (29 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.