On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 04:32:00AM AEDT, Samuel Thibault wrote: > As I said, espeak (and thus espeakup) should already be trying to > use pulseaudio by default. If that's not the case, then it's where > investigation needs to be done.
One way to force espeak to use PortAudio is to disable PulseAudio automatic spawning by default. This used to be adding a flag to ~/.config/pulseaudio/client.conf or changing the auto-spawn setting in /etc/pulse/client.conf, but recently, PulseAudio has gained activation support via Systemd, which is what may be used in Debian these days, not entirely sure. Luke
