I installed Lightspark from AUR so I could get Youtube and other similar things in the browser. Installing Lightspark pulled in Pulse. I only replaced the AudioOutputMethod directive in .speech-dispatcher/conf/speechd.conf to use pulse and noticed the distortion after I restarted speech-dispatcher, at which point I found and changed the settings I reported earlier. I have just installed the pulseaudio-gnome group as I write this message, which replaced gnome-media and gnome-settings-daemon, as well as pulling in a couple of additional pulse packages. I'll look at my volume control options, and I'll probably need to log out and back in, but I'll report my result. As for speech-dispatcher, once I changed the settings in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and restarted speech-dispatcher, everything started working perfectly. ~Kyle
