pyttsx: No module named 'engine'

text-to-speech python-3.4 speech-synthesis
Jokhongir Mamarasulov picture Jokhongir Mamarasulov · Apr 13, 2015 · Viewed 48.2k times · Source

I'm trying to install TTS package by using this. Everything was okay until I tried to execute the following command:

import pyttsx

I got back this error:

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pyttsx/__init__.py", line 18, in module <br>
    from engine import Engine<br>
ImportError: No module named 'engine'

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

Answer

Natesh bhat picture Natesh bhat · Jun 26, 2017

Guys there is an updated package compatible with Python3 :

pyttsx3

Works offline with no delay in the sound produced.

Installation:

pip install pyttsx3

Visit https://pyttsx3.readthedocs.io for the full usage docs. Thanks!

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