Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net> wrote: > Hi. No, all I get is silence trying to play a wav file with paplay. > Looks like that might be the issue. > I installed pavucontrol, but it says there are no devices. > > I don't want to use a .asoundrc. I will not for any reason break my alsa output. Why don't you just configure Speech-Dispatcher to use ALSA directly? That what I did. I have no intention of installing Pulseaudio.