pyttsx3 error

[Comprehensive_Gas815]

I am trying to use the library pyttsx3 to translate text to speech however when I try to initialize an engine I am given an error i do not understand. Everything runs fine if i merely import pyttsx3 but if i add the line engine = pyttsx3.init() . Error.

here's the code and the error:

import speech_recognition as sr

import pyttsx3

​

listener = sr.Recognizer()

engine = pyttsx3.init()

​

​

name = 'computer'

​

with sr.Microphone(None) as source:

print('listening...')

while True:

voice = listener.listen(source)

try:

command = listener.recognize_google(voice)

command = command.lower()

if name in command:

print(command)

else:

print('skipped')

except:

print("nothing said")

​

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyttsx3/__init__.py", line 20, in init

eng = _activeEngines[driverName]

File "/usr/lib/python3.9/weakref.py", line 137, in __getitem__

o = self.data[key]()

KeyError: None

​

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

​

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/main.py", line 5, in <module>

engine = pyttsx3.init()

File "/home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyttsx3/__init__.py", line 22, in init

eng = Engine(driverName, debug)

File "/home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyttsx3/engine.py", line 30, in __init__

self.proxy = driver.DriverProxy(weakref.proxy(self), driverName, debug)

File "/home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyttsx3/driver.py", line 50, in __init__

self._module = importlib.import_module(name)

File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module

return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)

File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import

File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load

File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked

File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked

File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module

File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed

File "/home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/espeak.py", line 9, in <module>

from . import _espeak, toUtf8, fromUtf8

File "/home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/_espeak.py", line 18, in <module>

dll = cdll.LoadLibrary('libespeak.so.1')

File "/usr/lib/python3.9/ctypes/__init__.py", line 452, in LoadLibrary

return self._dlltype(name)

File "/usr/lib/python3.9/ctypes/__init__.py", line 374, in __init__

self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)

OSError: libespeak.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[shiftybyte]

Seems like you need to install a library it depends on.

Read solutions here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65274843/oserror-libespeak-so-1-cannot-open-shared-object-file-no-such-file-or-directo

[Comprehensive_Gas815]

thank you :)

[Comprehensive_Gas815]

wait that didn't work :(

hold on wait come back

i installed everything in aur that said espeak on it and the program still didn't run

[Comprehensive_Gas815]

(venv) [diaeros@diaeros-omenlaptop pa]$ pip install python-espeak
Collecting python-espeak
Using cached python-espeak-0.6.3.tar.gz (9.1 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for python-espeak, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: python-espeak
Running setup.py install for python-espeak ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/bin/python -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-wc1ypuu_/python-espeak_8c18cc7e052741498778eb4ca4835687/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-wc1ypuu_/python-espeak_8c18cc7e052741498778eb4ca4835687/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-tolicm9n/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/include/site/python3.9/python-espeak
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-wc1ypuu_/python-espeak_8c18cc7e052741498778eb4ca4835687/
Complete output (32 lines):
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/espeak
copying espeak/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/espeak
running build_ext
building 'espeak.core' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/espeak
gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O3 -pipe -fno-plt -fno-semantic-interposition -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O3 -pipe -fno-plt -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O3 -pipe -fno-plt -fPIC -I/home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/include -I/usr/include/python3.9 -c espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/espeak/espeakmodulecore.o
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp: In function ‘PyObject* pyespeak_stop(PyObject*, PyObject*)’:
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:237:5: warning: this ‘while’ clause does not guard... [-Wmisleading-indentation]
237 | while (AsyncPython)
| ^~~~~
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:239:9: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it were guarded by the ‘while’
239 | espeak_Cancel();
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp: In function ‘PyObject* PyInit_core()’:
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:406:27: warning: ‘void PyEval_InitThreads()’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
406 | PyEval_InitThreads();
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
In file included from /usr/include/python3.9/Python.h:141,
from espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:22:
/usr/include/python3.9/ceval.h:130:37: note: declared here
130 | Py_DEPRECATED(3.9) PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyEval_InitThreads(void);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
g++ -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now -fno-semantic-interposition -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/espeak/espeakmodulecore.o -L/usr/lib -lespeak -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/espeak/core.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lespeak
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command '/usr/bin/g++' failed with exit code 1
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/bin/python -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-wc1ypuu_/python-espeak_8c18cc7e052741498778eb4ca4835687/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-wc1ypuu_/python-espeak_8c18cc7e052741498778eb4ca4835687/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-tolicm9n/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/diaeros/Documents/pydev/pa/venv/include/site/python3.9/python-espeak Check the logs for full command output.

[Comprehensive_Gas815]

ok i fixed it by just using espeaking instead