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This is because script say.py (must be written to be a standalone python script and hence) accepts sysargs. When say.py is launched with roslaunch, addition sysargs are passed to the script and __name:=say becomes the sys.argv[1].

The solution for this is to modify the say.py to accept rosparam.

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