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

Question

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?

Chester

apt install espeak – Sunder

Answer 1

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

Sculley

Answer 2

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.

Gruelling

I was getting /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lespeak: No such file or directory error although I installed espeak with sudo apt install espeak command on my Ubuntu 22.04. Installing the library package instead (sudo apt install libespeak-dev) solved my problem. Thanks! – Zagazig

Answer 3

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.

Joh

Answer 4

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.

Virile

Please provide more information on what this command does, and why it works. – Divergency

Answer 5

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

yay -S espeak-ng-extended-git

Algetic

Answer 6

To install eSpeak on manjaro i had to install it like:

pamac install espeak-ng

Veach

Answer 7

use

pip install PyAudio

this will definitely help you to run you code successfully.

Guienne

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Answer 8

Wanted to add some information regarding answers above for arch\manjaro linux:

sudo pamac install espeak-ng

This would help to install correct library. But for python use you might use pyttsx3 which is using libespeak. And mistake happens because for espeak-ng there is no such library.

And to resolve it you need to create a symbol link to a library within espeak-ng install like

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libespeak-ng.so.1 /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1

It will allow to "switch" calls from libespeak to libespeak-ng library.

Choric

Answer 9

If you are on MacBook (macOS) there is a way to install it with homebrew:

Install with brew formula:

brew install espeak

# check that it works
espeak -k20 -s150 "Hello"

then you can symlink missing libespeak.dlyb to the missing libespeak.so.1.

Pitiable