How to add custom method calls to event loop?

[ccarstens]

• SPADE version: 3.1.3
• Python version: 3.7.4
• Operating System: macOS 10.14.6

Description

I want to use a speech synthesis package called pyttsx3 which offers its own event loop for the execution of the synthesis. When using their event loop the voice output blocks everything else until I stop their event loop, which comes with a 1200ms delay.

Pyttsx3 als offers to use a custom event loop as described here.

Where would I call engine.iterate()?

Can I add Tasks or method calls to Spade's event loop?

Thank you for helping me! <3

[javipalanca]

agent.loop is the event loop of all the agents in the same process. You can access it also through the agent container:

container = Container()  # anywhere, since it is a singleton
container.loop

[ccarstens]

Thank you, Javi! Since the modules I'm using aren't implementing asyncio I ended up putting all the IO in it's own process while using the agent's run() method to monitor a queue with user responses.