Text to speech will crash on Mac

[Milan Boers]

TTS module pyttsx package (mac part: nsss.py) has not yet been adjusted to the module manager and will crash on Mac.

[Marten de Vries (marten-de-vries)]

I recently made pyratemp into a 'real' library like PyQt4 from the perspective of the modules (it's just next to openteacher.py now). Is it an idea to do the same for TTS? That would solve this thing and would make updating a lot easier. And then we can also sayy that our policy is to use import_ only for module code, not for libraries.

I can understand that moving TTS out may be too much work now for 3.0, but something to keep in mind for the rest of the 3.x series. And maybe it's faster than doing this stuff for mac ;).

[Marten de Vries (marten-de-vries)]

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openteacher.git/plain/openteacher-3.0-system-pyttsx.patch?h=f17&id=f3c1df0fada471bf8e4c8c19d19b2f7806a4e5a9

Fedora does already do what I proposed in my last comment since they ship pyttsx in their repo's. If it's as easy as it looks (I guess they tested it), it's the way to go I think.

[Marten de Vries (marten-de-vries)]

Solution postponed for now: TTS is just disabled on Mac.

[Marten de Vries (marten-de-vries)]

OT now uses a normal version of pyttsx (without adjustments), which avoids this bug & also gives nicer (and less) code than with all the separate espeak stuff.