Calling engine.runAndWait() causes my Kivy app to close

[ZeroOneLabs]

Hello,

Firstly, thank you very much for making this module. This is helping put me on a path to creating a universal TTS app for people with accessibility issues. I really appreciate the time you've put into this.

So my issue is that only when I queue a phrase into the speech engine and invoke the engine.runAndWait() method, the app will speak the text, but then it will close out. I created a new script and only ran the pyttsx3 code and it seemed to run fine. I had a thought that maybe pyttsx3 was sending a signal to the interpreter to quit.

FYI, I checked the shell's last exit code, which was zero (0).

An aside: For MacOS, why don't you use the internal 'say' builtin command for MacOS? That's been there since at least 2002.

[coling-git]

I am facing the same issue when calling engine.runAndWait() with Kivy. Using pyttsx3 library with python 3.8.5 on MacOS Big Sur.

@ZeroOneLabs were you able to find a solution? Here is my error and code.

2021-08-30 14:51:47.400 python[28231:1938050] -[OC_BuiltinPythonNumber _fastCStringContents:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fb4da5eb9e0

engine = pyttsx3.init() 
engine.setProperty('rate', 100)
engine.say(str(self.Message))
engine.runAndWait()

[ZeroOneLabs]

Hi @coling-git,

Unfortunately no. I ended up abandoning this project for now. I figured I'd have to write my own custom class/function to use MacOS's internal say command along with asyncio to put it into the background.

[Sammyueru]

I am facing the same issue when calling engine.runAndWait() with Kivy. Using pyttsx3 library with python 3.8.5 on MacOS Big Sur.

@ZeroOneLabs were you able to find a solution? Here is my error and code.

2021-08-30 14:51:47.400 python[28231:1938050] -[OC_BuiltinPythonNumber _fastCStringContents:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fb4da5eb9e0

engine = pyttsx3.init() 
engine.setProperty('rate', 100)
engine.say(str(self.Message))
engine.runAndWait()

Sorry to bug so far later but have you found a solution at this point?

[ZeroOneLabs]

No. I abandoned my own project that used pyttsx3 for now and have left this thread open for other people to comment and/or post a solution.

[Sammyueru]

No. I abandoned my own project that used pyttsx3 for now and have left this thread open for other people to comment and/or post a solution.

Shoot. Well thanks anyway.