Some of your problems sound similar to some issues I've been reading about in the latest pulseaudio. I'm hoping they'll be fixed soon, but until then, you can try to downgrade to a previous pulseaudio version if it's still in the repo. Otherwise, you may be able to fix some issues you are experiencing by fiddling with options in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and /etc/pulse/default.pa, although I don't think default.pa runs when pulseaudio runs as a system service. The alsa errors you are getting in espeak actually look normal. I've been getting these errors for a very long time, but they seem non-fatal. Espeak still speaks without any further complaints, so I didn't think there was anything to be extremely concerned about. It almost seems to be looking for hardware that doesn't exist, but I'm not sure why it does it, and it still speaks, so I just leave it alone and ignore the initial alsa errors. On the other hand, I can't figure out why you would be still getting the alsa hardware errors if you have rebuilt espeak using pulseaudio rather than portaudio, as in this case, espeak should only be using pulseaudio to send speech to your sound card. Did you install the development packages for pulseaudio? My guess is that it's falling back to portaudio because it can't find headers for pulseaudio. Look for I believe libpulse-dev or similar if you don't have it installed already. Just some thoughts, hope something helps. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/
