[orca-list] running speech-dispatcher

[Michael Weaver <weavermicha googlemail com>]

I am trying to change from gnome-speech to speech-dispatcher and
hopefully resolve my problem of Orca shutting down.
However, I cannot seem to be able to use Alsa even though I have got the
Alsa mixer using Add Remove menu in Ubuntu.
I keep running into this error message about not being able to use this
driver because the device is already in use by something else.
I even removed Pulseaudio from the sessions menu but still no
difference.
I presume that if I can't sort out Alsa I can't run Speech-dispatcher.
Pulseaudio gets around my problem of multi channel sound mixing but I am
told this stops Orca every ten or so minutes when it is working with
Gnome-speech.
How do I get Alsa to run and how do I make sure I am running
Speech-dispatcher once I have got things up and running?