Support for PortAudio is disabled for epos package and it is not possible to enable it by useflag. Therefore, it is not possible to use audio output of epos on system without OSS. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run command "eposd" 2. Run command "say-epos test" Actual Results: Error message: "Could not open localsound device, error 2 Client side error: Could not set up a stream" Because there is no OSS sound card. Expected Results: Here "test" word. Epos has PortAudio support so it is possible to use this library for audio output