Speech system not working properly; walking rubbish

Question

I have downloaded "kate" to speak on the speech system. Whenever she notifies of a calendar event she says a lots of random numbers and letters and do not say "meeting with Dave". What should I do to fix this problem. I like her voice.

Answer 1

This solved it for me, also.   I wanted to emphasize that you can use the Nuance non-built-in voices finally by choosing the voice under System Preferences->Dictation and speech, then deleting all speech files from ~/Library/Preferences.  I also disabled Speech Recognition and re-enabled it, though perhaps that was unnecessary, and then everything worked.  (Note: you may have to try speech recognition (say some commands) a few times before it will finally respond.  I think it takes a couple passes to re-form the entries in the speech plists.)