will wade

ok - mind giving me a code snippet fully on this? I have a feeling we have fixed this just not pushed a new release

Yeah ok - definitely then. thanks for confirming that - I can confirm we have fixed this already - just not released. Just give us a small while to release.....

lets keep it open.. you never know it might take me forever to get espeak working against all our new tests! its looking that way..

> We are saving `.aiff` files, not `.wav` when using [NSSpeechSynthesizer](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsspeechsynthesizer) `nsss` on macOS because [`startSpeakingString:toURL`](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsspeechsynthesizer/1448394-startspeakingstring) synthesizes text into a sound (AIFF) file. > > https://github.com/nateshmbhat/pyttsx3/blob/d212b167cf722126de819ab9b5102aa40b640406/pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py#L157 > > > This...

> https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/aifc.html was removed in Python 3.13 as a _dead battery_ https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#aifc > > Will we have identical problems with AVSynth https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfaudio/avaudiofile ? OOh i have a feeling we wont...

@cclauss @nateshmbhat i think we should do a release from main and then triage bugs. Any thoughts? (Nb. There WILL be bugs. )

> Sounds good @willwade. > Gimme a day. Will check this out. Cool. If you can some how tag it as an alpha or something that might be good. It...

That’s interesting. It’s not that bad you’ve got to install pyobjc but that’s fixable. I really must check Linux and windows. @cclauss are the tests working ok on this? What’s...

Sorry! So my bad! Basically. Run it all on windows. Run the tests. See if anything breaks. I’m sure it will. I’ve just been swamped with death in family stuff...

> I confirmed 2.99 worked for me on Windows, Linux and MacOS if that's helpful? It is super helpful. Can you run the tests and see if anything breaks?