Some progress here on this end. For the slint distribution when running in console mode with speech enabled it helps to edit /etc/pulse/client.conf and make sure autospawn=no. When set to yes, speakup which provides speech sounds very bad very shortly after log in. On archlinux, I can't use pulseaudio. Reason is at some random time after pulseaudio and speakup have worked properly for several hours, the only thing that's audible on the speakers changes from speech to static. pulseaudio -k does not effect the static and neither does a reboot of the computer after a minute with the computer being powered down. The only way I've found to clear this problem on archlinux has been to remove pulseaudio and all dependencies as well as optional dependencies from the machine then reboot the machine with a minute powered down. Unless I can find some way pulseaudio logs what changes happen during normal operation and later during abnormal operation I will not be using this package again. If some way exists to have pulseaudio do logs in its own files which do not get removed when pulseaudio gets removed, I'll make the logs available to any developers interested in fixing this problem. --
