On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote: > Pulseaudio starts, and speech-dispatcher and speechd-up work with it > just fine at boot. ?Since this is a distro for the blind, I boot into Err, are you sure that speech* are actually using PA and not ALSA directly? Your description is reminiscent of either a dummy/null sink being used for PA, which normally means another application has exclusive access to ALSA's *hw (or via OSS emulation /dev/dsp). Thanks! -Dan
