According to /etc/asound.conf, alsa is routing everything through pulse. But if I blacklist snd_pcm_oss, espeakup doesn't work at all. Before I blacklisted snd_pcm_oss, espeakup did start, but then stopped speaking once I logged into GNOME. I tried installing ossp in an attempt to replace snd_pcm_oss, but I get the same result. As for speech-dispatcher, unless it falls back to alsa if it isn't compiled for pulse and the audio-output-method is set to pulse in the config file, it should be using pulse directly here, and it isn't complaining.
