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If you put /s or /e into your random speeches, that will override the selected chat channel, with one exception: the "silent" channel option will still silence the speeches in that scenario.  This works for all slash commands (except for a recent bug discussed above)

There's a checkbox under the general settings for "Share speeches across all toons".  If you uncheck that option, it will make a separate copy of all your event triggers and their speeches, for each of your different characters.  Then you can delete the unwanted triggers/speeches from your non-mage characters without also deleting them from your mage.

If you dislike the added maintenance of changing your speeches on each toon separately, then you can continue to enable the option to share speeches across all toons, and then do something a little trickier to make only your mage announce certain events.  This method relies on setting up redirected events using variations of "/ss macro <player> something"  The <player> substitution there will fill in your character's name, and the "something" part is any name you want to give it to distinguish "/ss macro <player> something" from "/ss macro <player> something else"

Aetheran explained how to use "/ss macro <substitution>" as "method B" in his guide for creating Different Speech Lists for Different Situations

In your case, you'd want to use the <player> substitition to fill in the name of the character who you're playing when the event happens, i.e. your mage's name vs. your other characters' names.

For example, if you only want your mage to announce entering combat, but you don't want any of your other characters to announce it, but you still want to share most of your speeches across all toons, then you could set up the entering combat event to use only 1 random speech "/ss macro <player> entering combat" and that will redirect SpeakinSpell to trigger a different event depending which character you're playing, based on the <player> substitution.  Depending on your specific goals, you may find better results with other substitutions like <caster>.

Yeah it's disappointing.  I run into the "macro hate" quite often as well.  A few tips I can offer include:

1. Avoid using /say and /party channels because they create chat bubbles.  For many people who dislike your macros, it's really the chat bubbles obscuring their field of vision that bothers them.
2. When you still want to use use those chat bubble channels (/s and /p), you can automatically clear the chat bubble by adding a "." on a separate line, as the final line of your random speech.  The "." will come up as its own chat bubble, clearing the previous one, and since it's such a short message, it will time out and go away almost immediately.  That's the only way you can hide your chat bubbles from other players.
3. When you're playing solo, only use the self-only chat channels (or the similar "mysterious whisper" channel)
4. Avoid announcing in-combat events except in cases where it's for combat-critical communication, such as announcing that you're casting a battle rez, which the rest of your group wants to know about.
1. For example, even though Mirror Image is one of my favorite spells to joke about, because those clones can be so stupid sometimes, I've personally stopped announcing it with SpeakinSpell because it comes up in almost every combat, and the rest of my group doesn't really need to know that I cast it.
2. For another example, there are a variety of CC spells that I only have SpeakinSpell announce in Arena, because I know my Arena team wants to see it, but battleground teams, and my PvE parties and raids don't want to see my polymorph spam, or announcements that I got feared, etc.
5. No matter what you do, some people are just going to be unreasonably hateful about any macro usage, no matter how witty your jokes are, or how rarely it comes up, and all you can do for those people is to apologize and turn off SpeakinSpell (click the minimap button) until you part ways.
6. Don't let it get you down.  Though there are a lot of people who hate your macros, there are also a lot of people out there who love them.

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4.3.0.04
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Fixed a lua error related to using "/ss macro <substitution>" and [Click Here] links

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Delthania, this fixes your Lua error.

For Polymorph Sheep, I did some experimentation, and found that the rank is nothing (an empty string) such that "/ss macro poly <rank>." evaluates to "/ss macro poly ."  I put a period at the end of the macro name, after the <rank>, to show that there's a space after the word poly.  You need to do the same thing because SpeakinSpell gets confused by trailing spaces and won't work correctly with "/ss macro poly "  I hope that makes sense.

An update on the Simplified Chinese support added to the previous release 4.3.0.03-beta...

I heard from the translator that the beta would not load in the Chinese game client unless he modified the Lua code to set Chinese as the default language instead of English.  That can't be the full explanation because the addon should still load either in English or Chinese regardless of which language is set as the default.

I believe the problem at the time was that the Chinese game client had not yet received the latest Blizzard patch for 4.3 (Blizzard doesn't update China on the same schedule as the rest of the world), which must have led to a conflict with the newest version of SpeakinSpell which expects WoW 4.3.  I don't know if China has received patch 4.3 yet, but that was a few weeks ago, so I assume they have probably been updated by now.

To make a long story short, I removed the Beta designation on this release, but kept the Chinese language support and partial translation, such as it is.  I have my fingers crossed in hopes that Chinese users of SpeakinSpell will be able to use this version without a problem.

If anyone is able to use this latest version of SpeakinSpell in the Simplified Chinese game client, please let me know if it works for you or not.  If you receive Lua errors, please post them.

Thanks and enjoy!

It should mostly work in Russian.

SpeakinSpell doesn't inherently know about any spell in the game, other than where I provide default speeches.  For the most part, SpeakinSpell learns about what spells and other event triggers exist in the game by watching you play and recording every new spell it sees pass through your combat log.  That was intended to make it less work for me to support future patches and expansion.  If those spells have Russian names, that doesn't change anything - it should still work exactly the same way.  SpeakinSpell will learn the Russian names for every spell it sees you cast, and add it to the list you can search under "/ss create"

Nobody has provided a translation into Russian yet, so that means several parts of the addon will be stuck in English: the user interface, slash command words like /ss options, and the <substitution> words like <target> in your random speeches must be in English.  So you'll need to be able to read English in order to find your way around the addon options, to understand what each option does and how to set it up to suit your tastes.

However, you can still set it up to detect your spells and abilities based on their Russian names, and write your own speeches in Russian.  The random speeches that appear in chat, which is the most important part, will go into the chat in Russian (or however you write them)

Everything else that you need to know is in the main description above...

First you'll want to erase all of the default spell event triggers and speeches because they're all in English.  Use the command "/ss eraseall" to easily erase all of the English defaults (technically it erases all of your event triggers and speeches, including but not limited to only the defaults - anything you added or changed is also erased by "/ss eraseall")

Next begin adding triggers to SpeakinSpell.  I personally find the easiest method is to cast a spell that you want SpeakinSpell to announce, and then type "/ss recent".  You will be presented with clickable links in your chat frame (also in English, except for the name of the spell).

Assuming you can read English well enough to navigate SpeakinSpell's clickable chat links, and the user interface windows that come up when you click them, then it should be obvious how to add new speeches from there.  Simply write your speeches in Russian.

As a reminder, translators who would like to help translate SpeakinSpell into additional languages should please start here: http://www.wowace.com/addons/speakinspell/localization/ and send me a private message on curse or wowace to let me know when your translation is ready for testing.  I am always happy to work with you to help finish the translation and deliver it to the public.

Aetharan's Tutorials for advanced tips and tricks: http://tinyurl.com/4ptc2xg

Aetheron figured out a powerful trick for SpeakinSpell: using <substitutions> with "/ss macro something" to create conditional speech lists for different situations.  He describes it as Method B on this page.

What you can do in this case is to setup the SpeakinSpell event for "When I cast: Polymorph" to /say "/ss macro poly <rank>" (using any non-silent channel in the drop-down lists, it doesn't have to be /say)

The animal of polymorph is in its spell rank, which you can get from the <rank> substitution, so when you cast Polymorph (pig) this will cause SpeakinSpell to trigger "/ss macro poly pig" which is a command back into SpeakinSpell again to trigger a custom event ("/ss macro _anything you want to name your custom event_")

That way you can put a different speech list under "/ss macro poly turtle" and "/ss macro poly sheep" and so on.

I don't know off the top of my head what happens with the glyphed versions like penguin, whether the <rank> reflects the glyphed animal change or not.  If not, <spellid> might work.

I have a theoretical repair for the Lua error but just need to spend some time testing it before I post an update.  I hope to do that within the next few days if not tonight.  The way I implemented [Click Here] links in chat doesn't support the use of <substitutions> in /ss macro events (until I post the next updated version) because [Click Here] also uses the same angle brackets behind the scenes.  Fortunately, the Lua error is only a problem if you [Click There]

On the second point, Polymorph Sheep should be rank Sheep (confirmed in WoW patch 4.0 but I haven't personally retested it since then), but if Blizzard changed something since patch 4.0, the rank might be blank, or more likely the substitution would fail and leave it as <rank>.  It will be easier to find out after I post the next version of SpeakinSpell with the repair to the Lua error mentioned above, because then you'll be able to [Click Here] to edit speeches for whatever event *actually* fires from casting Sheep.

The mysterious voice is a form of self-only chat.  Nobody else can see it.