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pythonlinuxpyttsx3
user19239425
user19239425

Reputation:

import error of comtypes in linux whil using pyttsx3 module

I am having an issue in the pyttsx3 module while using it in linux(raspberrian).When I use the module it gives an error in the following line:engine = pyttsx3.init('sapi5')

the error is:

    self._module = importlib.import_module(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 790, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/home/indian53/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/sapi5.py", line 1, in <module>
    import comtypes.client  # Importing comtypes.client will make the gen subpackage
  File "/home/indian53/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/comtypes/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
    from _ctypes import COMError
ImportError: cannot import name 'COMError' from '_ctypes' (/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload/_ctypes.cpython-39-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so)

I also tried

pip install ctypes

but got the following error:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement ctypes
ERROR: No matching distribution found for ctypes

edit- This is the code of the file I am working in

import pyttsx3
import speech_recognition as sr

engine = pyttsx3.init('sapi5')
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[0].id)

def speak(audio):
    engine.say(audio)
    engine.runAndWait()

def respond(q):
    print(q)
    speak(q)

    
def takecommand(t):
        r = sr.Recognizer()
        with sr.Microphone() as source:
            r.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source, duration=0.2)
            print("listening...")
            audio = r.listen(source)
            print("recognizing...")
        try:
            global query
            query = r.recognize_google(audio)
            query = query.lower()
            print(query)
        except Exception as e:
            if t == 1:
                respond("Sorry, can you repeat that?")
            takecommand(1)
        return str(query)

print("hello world")

respond("happy life")

q = takecommand(1)

I would appreciate if someone could help

Don't forget I am working on linux and this is working fine on windows

Please don't mark this question as duplicate because other answer didn't help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 918

Answers (1)

Shyam Saran
Shyam Saran

Reputation: 11

On Linux, the espeak driver may have to be used in place of sapi5:

Upvotes: 0

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