[pulseaudio-discuss] Help needed for system-wide pulseaudio for blind users

[Daniel Chen]

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