failed to run .py file with pyttsx3 on endeavourOS (arch) vs-code with python3.10.1

[sawoodsheikh-141]

CODE~~>

{

import pyttsx3 engine = pyttsx3.init() engine.say("i will speak the way i want") engine.runAndWait()

}

OUTPUT ~~>

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sawood/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyttsx3/init.py", line 20, in init eng = _activeEngines[driverName] File "/usr/lib/python3.10/weakref.py", line 137, in getitem o = self.data[key]() KeyError: None

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sawood/preserved/AI/Friday.py", line 2, in engine = pyttsx3.init() File "/home/sawood/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyttsx3/init.py", line 22, in init eng = Engine(driverName, debug) File "/home/sawood/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyttsx3/engine.py", line 30, in init self.proxy = driver.DriverProxy(weakref.proxy(self), driverName, debug) File "/home/sawood/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyttsx3/driver.py", line 50, in init self._module = importlib.import_module(name) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/init.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "", line 1050, in _gcd_import File "", line 1027, in _find_and_load File "", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 688, in _load_unlocked File "", line 883, in exec_module File "", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/home/sawood/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/espeak.py", line 5, in from . import _espeak, toUtf8, fromUtf8 File "/home/sawood/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/_espeak.py", line 18, in dll = cdll.LoadLibrary('libespeak.so.1') File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ctypes/init.py", line 452, in LoadLibrary return self._dlltype(name) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ctypes/init.py", line 374, in init self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) OSError: libespeak.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[wbehrens-on-gh]

The system can't find libespeak.so.1, I have this same issue but idk what package contains the library

[wbehrens-on-gh]

A temporary solution I've found is to install the package espeak-ng and then symlink libespeak-ng.so.1 to libespeak.so.1

[nsde]

Same problem here.