Steve Holmes <speakup at linux-speakup.org> wrote: >I thought I got pulseaudio disabled like I used to but every time I >execute the espeak command or run emacspeak, it keeps using pulseaudio >and killing ALSA until it releases it. Even paplay works but I have >/etc/pulseaudio/default.pa completely commented out and stupid pulse >keeps rering its ugly head. Any other ideas on how to stop it in its >tracks? It's probably the default device in your Alsa configuration and you'll have to revert that change to use Alsa devices directly instead of going through PulseAudio. I can't give you specific instructions because the configuration details will vary somewhat by distribution.
