So you're saying Sundoulos is a girl, and that's why she doesn't use her Wii Speak? I knew it!
Don't listen to her, everyone. After all, Mop it up is the one sporting the avatar of a character who has gender identity issues.
lol. As I've said before, Wii Speak would be fine if it were actually in a headseat form. The problem that I usually have to play late at night, and my Wii is set up s next to the bedrooms in the house. If I turn up the volume too high, I'll wake up my wife and kid; if it's too low, I usually can't hear what is said. Talking too loud creates the same issue. The most simple solution was to use a keyboard.
I did buy a nice Logitech USB headset hoping that it would be recognized on the Wii Speak channel (as someone suggested near the beginning of the thread) or at least there would be some option to divert the output to the headset. Apparently some of the old logitech headset systems would register as a Wii Speak device; I didn't have any luck with this newer model. I guess I should get a USB to audio adapter at least so that I can hear at a decent volume.