Espeak under Debian/Ubuntu

[Kerry Hoath]

I have installed ubuntu 10.10 on a box, and have the speakup modules 
installed.
When I installed espeak it pulled in libportaudio2 which  pulled in jack 
libraries.

Now when I try to run espeak it tells me connection refused as portaudio 
can't contact jack.
Short of recompiling portaudio libraries is there a way to tell 
espeak/portaudio to use alsa rather than Jack?
I've looked on portaudio.com but haven't seen a way to configure the 
portaudio library to do this.

Regards, Kerry.