OK sorry for brainfarting so much but I'm just jotting down notes on the differences between the speech-dispatcher in Squeeze and the speech-dispatcher in experimental.
I figured out who spd-say didn't work with my experimental setup. spd-say doesn't set a volume, so it used the default. My default was set at -100, the very minimum. So it was silent. Now that I've set default volume to 50 in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, I can hear spd-say's output. So it seems that only one speech-dispatcher is started per user, and all applications (such as Mumble and spd-say) can use it. One thing remains. How to cleanly shut down speech-dispatcher (experimental) when I log out? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org