Brokeeen KTTS

Hello  
  KTTS is not working properly. A few months ago when something was 
copied to it from the clipboard it was chopping words at the front and end of 
sentences. Recently whole sentences were clipped off at the beginning of the 
material copied on to the clipboard in the kttsmgr. I had to restart the 
material in the kttsmgr in order to hear the entire text.  I am running open 
SUSA 42.2 and KDE 3. I have been using linux for many years. ktts is vital to 
me as I am legally blind and cannot read any text on my display. If anyone 
can help me with this problem, I would greatly appreciate it.