Controlling text-to-speech pauses with pyttsx3

[pmac1300]

I have a list of words that I want Python to turn into speech:

import pyttsx3
import time

words = ['this','is','my','list']

engine = pyttsx3.init()

for i in words:
    engine.say(i)
    engine.runAndWait()
    time.sleep(0)

Currently, the time between each word is too long (over a second), even with time.sleep set to 0. Why does the .runAndWait() method even have a built-in wait time and how can this delay be decreased?

Yoriz write Mar-12-2022, 11:52 PM:
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[menator01]

Instead of looping the list of words, maybe join them.

import pyttsx3

words = ['this','is','my','list']
join_words = ' '.join(words)

engine = pyttsx3.init()

engine.say(join_words)
engine.runAndWait()

[pmac1300]

Now it is too fast. And changing the 'rate' parameter doesn't help either because it slows down the word too.

[BashBedlam]

You can create small pauses after each word by inserting commas like this:

import pyttsx3

words = ['this,','is,','my,','list']
join_words = ' '.join(words)
engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.say(join_words)
engine.runAndWait()
 

[Coricoco_fr]

Hello,

You can create small pauses after each word by inserting commas like this:

import pyttsx3

words = ['this,','is,','my,','list']
join_words = ' '.join(words)
engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.say(join_words)
engine.runAndWait()
 

words = ['this','is','my','list']
join_words = ', '.join(words)