While running the KDE Advanced Text Editor (Kate), you can speak the text displayed. First ensure that Jovie is running and enable the KTextEditor Jovie Text-to-Speech Plugin in Kate's settings dialog. Highlight the text you want spoken and choose → on the main menu. After a moment, the highlighted text should begin speaking.
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You do not have to first highlight text. In this case, the entire file will be spoken.
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This also works when Kate is running embedded in another application, such as Konqueror or Quanta.