Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote: > I just found one caveat to my process. It would seem that the > instructions I provided don't survive a reboot. You may need to setup a > script that will do this for you if you want to always use the USB > speakers for espeakup. Does your distribution have a global Alsa configuration file, similar to ~/.asoundrc? If so, I would write it there, then configure PulseAudio separately. For my USB head set, the configuration is: pcm.!default front:Headset which will work if placed in ~/.asoundrc (for the local user, naturally).