I think that you should remove the direct alsa option since that should remove the libasound and just link to portaudio or pulseaudio or whatever. Since people insist on using pulseaudio it'd be worth figuring out why espeak's direct pulseaudio support isn't working with espeakup. I don't like the extra complexity of pulseaudio but it's not going away so we should probably try to make it work. Especially since the gnome people and the speech dispatcher people insist on using it and we have to use software speech with espeakup or something similar. I'd be willing to help debug this. It'd be nice if we could sort out the audio and accessibility mess that we have. I'm seeing quite a few apps default to pulseaudio for sound and new users are not necessarily going to want to mess around with sound systems and driver quirks and other odd stuff just so they can get speech.
