Not speaking more than the first word in Mac OSX

[vishwanath1306]

Whenever I'm trying to talk more than the first word in my program, espeak doesn't seem to be working. I am using Python 3.6.0, and running the command. The code is as follows:

    delay = 200
    word_ = f"The word is {word}"
    meaning_ = f"The meaning is {meaning}"
    command1 = f"espeak -g{delay} {word_}"
    command2 = f"espeak -g{delay} {meaning_}"
    for i in range(0,3):
        os.system(command1)
        os.system(command2)

In word, if instead of The word is, I give The_word_is, it works fine.

Do help me out, or suggest if some other offline library can solve this purpose.

[valdisvi]

If text is passed to espeak as parameter in command line, it should be written as single "single word" or 'single word" (i.e. wrapped in in single or double quotes). This example works:

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
phrase = "This is one sentence. This is another."
command = "espeak '"+ phrase + "'"
os.system(command)