OC_BuiltinPythonArray length: unrecognized selector sent to instance

[SimasJan]

I run pyttsx3 library on Python 3.6.7, Mac OS Mojave. Had no problem whatsoever with the library thus far until today. I had a list array with 3 string values in it, and passed it to a function which performs a standard engine.say() and engine.runAndWait() commands, however it returns a following error:

2019-06-10 16:59:26.960 Python[53190:3191407] -[OC_BuiltinPythonArray length]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fdcb0dd89d0

the function that perform the text-to-speech:
def speakThisOut(text_to_say): engine.say(text_to_say) return engine.runAndWait()

An array that has been passed as argument to the function for the engine to speak:
options = ['Employed', 'Student', 'Self Employed']

Calling the function:
speakThisOut(options)

Apologies, if I missed somewhere on the documentation where it states that lists (i.e. arrays) are not supported. Has anyone faced the same/similar problem? Any ideas how to address it? Thank you.

[arundhiman86]

I am facing similar kind of issue not sure what is the problem.

2020-06-14 22:25:46.311 python[43458:872575] -[OC_BuiltinPythonNumber length]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fa4c015b900

I am using pyttsx3 library on Python 3.7.6, Mac OS Mojave.

I am passing an integer for the engine to speak:

def speak(text):
engine.say(text)
engine.runAndWait()

year = int(datetime.datetime.now().year)
speak(year)

@SimasJan, are you able to get find the answer to it?

[arundhiman86]

My bad, I was passing integer to the speak function. Ideally I should have converted into string and pass to it. That's how it worked.

Solution:-

def speak(text):
engine.say(text)
engine.runAndWait()

year = str(datetime.datetime.now().year)
speak(year)

[coling-git]

I am facing the same issue.

Using pyttsx3 library with python 3.8.5 on MacOS Big Sur. Here is my error and code.

2021-08-30 14:51:47.400 python[28231:1938050] -[OC_BuiltinPythonNumber _fastCStringContents:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fb4da5eb9e0

engine = pyttsx3.init() 
engine.setProperty('rate', 100)
engine.say(str(self.Message))
engine.runAndWait()

[PabloIrobot]

year = str(datetime.datetime.now().year)
month = str(datetime.datetime.now().month)
date = str(datetime.datetime.now().day)