AttributeError: 'Engine' object has no attribute 'runandwait'

Question

The program below is giving me an error. This is my program:

import pyttsx3 as tts

def speak(text):
    engine = tts.init("sapi5")
    engine.say(text)
    engine.runandwait()

speak('Hello user this is a test message.')

This is the error message I am getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\SIDDHESH\Projects\test.py", line 6, in <module>
    speak('Hello user this is a test message.')
  File "c:\Users\SIDDHESH\Projects\test.py", line 5, in speak
    engine.runandwait()
AttributeError: 'Engine' object has no attribute 'runandwait'

I would like to point out that my variable is called engine but the error message says something about a variable 'Engine'. I would also like to point out that I am using Visual Studio Code to run my code.

Answer 1

Looks like you need to write engine.runAndWait(), starting every new word with an uppercase letter. Remember that python is case sensitive, it means that runandwait and runAndWait are different attributes.