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I am making a pyttsx3 chat bot however this error occurred:

OSError: libespeak.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This error also occurred:

KeyError: None

Here is my code:

import pyttsx3

def say(sp):
    engine = pyttsx3.init()
    engine.say(sp)
    engine.runandwait()
    
say("Hello my name is Neuron")

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

crvcio
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To install espeak on ubuntu or any of the debian based OS, enter the following command on the terminal:

sudo apt install espeak

To use pyttsx3 python library, install the following using terminal:

pip3 install pyttsx3 sudo apt install espeak pip3 install pyaudio or use sudo apt install python3-pyaudio

dust
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pyttsx3 uses the espeak library for speech synthesis.

The error says that python cannot find this library.

I work on Arch (Linux) and I solved this problem by:

sudo pacman -S espeak

For Ubuntu you can do it by:

sudo apt install espeak

For Windows unfortunately I don't know the answer. Maybe you can install the library from the internet.

Gino Mempin
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Webkadiz
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I face the same problem on my ubuntu 20.04 at first install espeak or libespeak-dev

$ sudo apt install espeak

or

$ sudo apt install libespeak-dev

and after installing pyttsx3 on my venv

$ pip install pyttsx3

and it works fine with me hope it will help.

Badrelden Ahmed
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sudo apt install libespeak-dev

This package provides eSpeak development files needed for compilation with the espeak shared library. Your code will works fine after install it. I had the same issu and I resolved it with this command.

interface22
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For arch the problem can be solved by installing espeak-ng-extended-git

yay -S espeak-ng-extended-git
Zarif Muhtasim
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To install eSpeak on manjaro i had to install it like:

pamac install espeak-ng
R.V
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use

pip install PyAudio

this will definitely help you to run you code successfully.

rajeev_inr
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