Comment 62 for bug 400820

I have moved to that comment, too. People tend to think of wine as running stupid and optional games, but it's the only way for disabled people to get speech recognition on Linux, and I refuse to give it up.
And by the way, when alsa/wine runs speech rec, it runs it very well. The speed is great, the recognition is great, for text entry.

Another thing, pulseaudio will always be a handicap to those who use speech rec, because of latency issues and the layer of overlap, speech rec will never run with pulse as well as it does with alsa alone. Speech rec is a much more complex program than any single music app, or Skype. Those of us who need it willingly make sacrifices to use it.