Hello, PulseAudio is not a problem. You can use the OSS Emulation of PA, it works perfectly. (I saw a test with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and it seems imply that it's good, isn't it ?) I used padsp for a while when a beautiful project was born : WinePulse. I'm actually testing it with the main (and only) developer of this PulseAudio backend for Wine and recently he made it working on my Ubuntu 8.10 with PulseAudio 0.9.10. So it's not yet a full implementation and WaveIn doesn't work for me, but it will be fine and I hope integrated in Wine.
