Pidgin-Festival Plugin Has Stop Working

[Lonnie Lee Best]

This plugin was working fine until I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2.

Now, although the plug-in is enabled, I do not hear my instant messages being read aloud anymore.

This link (which is a bit dated) can still help aid you in reproducing the problem:
http://www.howtoadvice.com/ListenToIM

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: pidgin-festival 2.4-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 12 10:37:48 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin-festival
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-04 (7 days ago)

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10.

After doing this, someone sent me an instant message and it was spoken to me through my speakers. This is the first time that's happened since Ubuntu 12.10. It caught me by surprise. I hope this stays fixed for the 13.10 release!