Speakfreely problem:

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Nah, either way it's using OSS.  The version from speakup CVS has (or at
least had) some experimental ALSA code in it, but I don't know how
satisfactory it ever became.  I think you can compile it again by tweeking
the Makefile.  Jim or Kirk would know more about this, but the fact that
it's not been touched in a long time would suggest to me that it's probably
not in much of a state.