It seems like my woes were from speech dispatcher blocking the sound device before pulseaudio could get to it. See bug 213755.
By starting pulseaudio system wide it seems that you temporarily circumvented this by starting pulseaudio before speech dispatcher. -- PulseAudio Sound Server: Failed to connect: Connection refused https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207312 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
