why speech-dispatcher uses pulseaudio?

[Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl>]

Hi

I have problems with starting the latest (experimental) 
speech-dispatcher. It seems that all come down to the audio output 
setting. With alsa it is ok. With pulseaudio either does not work at all 
or with an ugly sounding speech. (I use espeak output module). I figured 
out that even when speechd is forced to use pulseaudio, it still uses 
alsa for output.

Could be that the whole concept is concentrated around gnome, which I 
have not fully installed? I mean gnome (my guess) uses pulseaudio and 
that's why speechd is also set by default to pulseaudio?

So how should speechd be configured by default on Debian? With alsa or 
with pulse?

Jarek