Festival Speech Engine Stutter 8.10

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LMCE 8.10

Festival speech engine works fine from shell access or KDE by command line, run as linuxmce or root.
However, when an event triggers festival from the front end Media Director, the speech repeats the text variable twice and it is stuttering or breaking up to the point where you can not determine what its saying.

Given that festival works fine from back end, is this permissions related or festival configuration related to Alsa within LMCE ?

Thanks