Comment 4 for bug 376024

Is there a current solution for someone who has permanently removed pulseaudio, other than regressing alsa-utils?
I have a system where I will never install pulseaudio. I need speech recognition, and my machine uses audio only to access Dragon NaturallySpeaking through wine. Pasuspender and padsp cause problems and seem to add latency.
Will the old alsa-utils work, going forward?