for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

[Chris Brannon]

Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> writes:

> pulseaudio is responsible for blocking signals that rightfully alsa
> ought to get.

Yes, but I also built espeak-ng's audio library without pulseaudio
support, with the same result.
So at this point, I'm going on the assumption that there are issues with
the ALSA code as well.

-- Chris