every single creative writing teacher I’ve had has said (er, stated) that you should use “said" and use the above words sparingly because it clutters up the meaning of the sentence.
Oh yeah. And if you’re a journalist, they won’t print/broadcast your story if your language is like this.
but doing “said" after “said" after “said" is kind of repetitive… so breaking it up a bit with these words seems handy.
If you have a lot of dialogue you can just exclude speaking words after you’ve established that the characters are having a conversation.
"Said" is not dead, but it’s fun to see all of these options in one place.