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Triple_Steak

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Registered: 2021-12-07

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Installing espeak for Python's "pyttsx3"

Hi,

I had written a functional Python script on a friend's Macbook, and copied the code over to run on my Linux. I'm getting the error "OSError: libespeak.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

The "espeak" library got removed from AUR (I went here: https://archlinux.org/packages/communit … 4/espeak/)
I tried to install:
- "espeak-ng" from pacman
- "espeak-ng-espeak" from pacman
- "espeak-ng-espeak-git" using yay

All of which did not resolve the error. I remember encountering this error while running the same script on a Windows WSL Ubuntu, using "sudo apt-get install espeak". Unfortunately, "sudo pacman -S espeak" doesn't work because espeak doesn't exist.
Is there perhaps a post-installation process I'm missing?

Any help would be appreciated.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Installing espeak for Python's "pyttsx3"

with community/espeak-ng-espeak installed, what is the output of pacman -Ql espeak-ng-espeak  ?

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Triple_Steak

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Re: Installing espeak for Python's "pyttsx3"

espeak-ng-espeak /usr/
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/bin/
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/bin/espeak
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/bin/speak
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/include/
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/include/espeak/
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/include/espeak/speak_lib.h
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/share/
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/share/man/
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/share/man/man1/
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/share/man/man1/espeak.1.gz
espeak-ng-espeak /usr/share/man/man1/speak.1.gz

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

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Re: Installing espeak for Python's "pyttsx3"

Shooting from the hip here, but how about python-espeak from the AUR ?

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Triple_Steak

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Re: Installing espeak for Python's "pyttsx3"

python-espeak brought up three options: 1) espeak-ng-espeak-git 2) espeak-ng-extended-git 3) espeak-test

The first one ran into installation errors and wasn't able to complete. However, the second one, after selecting the option to clean and rebuild all dependencies, worked! My Python code compiles now.

Thanks for the help, ewaller. Appreciate it