I just wrote this simple code to test pyttsx3.
import pyttsx3 as pt
engine = pt.init()
engine.say("hi this is python")
engine.runAndWait()
I have worked with pyttsx3 in windows and can figure out why is this is giving me this kind of error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyttsx3/__init__.py", line 20, in init
eng = _activeEngines[driverName]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.11/3.11.6_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/weakref.py", line 136, in __getitem__
o = self.data[key]()
~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
KeyError: None
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/<Path to file>", line 3, in <module>
engine = pt.init()
^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyttsx3/__init__.py", line 22, in init
eng = Engine(driverName, debug)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyttsx3/engine.py", line 30, in __init__
self.proxy = driver.DriverProxy(weakref.proxy(self), driverName, debug)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyttsx3/driver.py", line 50, in __init__
self._module = importlib.import_module(name)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.11/3.11.6_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py", line 12, in <module>
class NSSpeechDriver(NSObject):
File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py", line 13, in NSSpeechDriver
@objc.python_method
^^^^
NameError: name 'objc' is not defined. Did you mean: 'object'?
What I searched an got was that there was problem with pyttsx3 on Ventura update. It there a fix around this?
I tried changing some imports and variables/keys by cloning the repo and trying to run it as local module but no luck!
Ok, what I found was pyttsx3 is kind of not being well maintained.
The point is to use py3-tts instead of pyttsx3.
just pip uninstall pyttsx3 and pip install py3-tts
More details - https://pypi.org/project/py3-tts/