Control: found -1 0.8.6-4 thanks Hi,
did another test: The installation and start/stop/restart of speechd-up work when changing /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf from # AudioOutputMethod "pulse" to AudioOutputMethod "pulse,alsa" But doing so will break pulseaudio for users. There will be no audio output from applications like vlc or firefox until speechd-up is stopped. vlc is showing only "dummy output" instead of the usual "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" in Audio/Audio Device when speechd-up is running. Starting speechd-up after stopping it and using pulse as a user fails until the running pulseaudio daemon is killed. Switching vlc to use only alsa (both output module and device) works with speechd-up running. This whole issue looks very similar to #521675 (pulseaudio), note the mention of speech-dispatcher which turned out to be the cause for one user. There are also #625235 and #670740 in speech-dispatcher. A solution might be running pulseaudio as system-wide daemon. But I don't know whether this is desirable or not, because there are some downsides, including security implications.