The patch that I mentioned above has now been incorporated into the Focal proposed updates. To fetch it to your system before it is released in the stable channel, do the following:
Enable "Pre-released updates (focal-proposed)" under the tab 'Developer Options' in Software & Updates. Then update the cache before closing Software & Updates.
Open Software Updater, fetch, and apply the PulseAudio/dependencies updates (pulseaudio 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.3). Reboot.
For the rest of the affected souls here:
The patch that I mentioned above has now been incorporated into the Focal proposed updates. To fetch it to your system before it is released in the stable channel, do the following:
Enable "Pre-released updates (focal-proposed)" under the tab 'Developer Options' in Software & Updates. Then update the cache before closing Software & Updates.
Open Software Updater, fetch, and apply the PulseAudio/ dependencies updates (pulseaudio 1:13.99. 1-1ubuntu3. 3). Reboot.
The audio should be working fine now.
Voila.