engine.say() followed by consecutive calls fails to speak queued text. #419
Description
When using pyttsx3 with the 'sapi5' engine on Windows, calling engine.say() multiple times in a row — followed by engine.runAndWait() after each — sometimes causes the second or later speech to be silently skipped or not spoken at all. This happens even though no error is thrown and the function completes.
To Reproduce
import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init('sapi5')
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[0].id)
def speak(text):
engine.say(text)
engine.runAndWait()
speak("Whats up buddy?") # ✅ This line works fine
speak("Now I am going to speak last line.") # ❌ This line fails to speak
print("I will run without any error") # ✅ This line works fineSystem Information:
OS: Windows 10
Python Version: 3.13.3
pyttsx3 Version: 2.99