pyttsx3 initialization error, can't use pyttsx3

Question

I was having some problems when using the .getproperty(\'voices\') attribute in pyttsx3. So I decided to uninstall it and then re-install it using PIP to see if that may fix the

Answer 1

You need to provide a driver key argument to init. 'dummy' or 'sapi5' would work.

engine = pyttsx3.init('dummy')

or

engine = pyttsx3.init('sapi5')