Comment 5 for bug 794216

> Sorry for the long time before this response; it appears that speechd-el does not have an active maintainer.

Sorry, just to clarify: There does not seem to be any volunteers to look after this package in Ubuntu. The Debian maintainer and the upstream for Debian both work to keep the package in some sort of shape, but it appears that upgrading a system with this package installed for emacs22 is riddled with complexities which have not been sorted out entirely.

Symptoms also include "Wrong type argument: listp, :after" apparently from eieo as well.