Quit before end of the synth

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I don't know if this project is still alive (but it is very useful !) ? So, I try to bump this issue once, hoping that it is the case.

Hi,

Sorry for the late answer.

The espeak library was designed for asynchronous use, if you want to know when it's finished speaking you'll have to set a SynthCallback.

For instance:

import time
from espeak import espeak
from espeak import core as espeak_core

def synth(*args):
    done_synth = [False]
    def cb(event, pos, length):
        if event == espeak_core.event_MSG_TERMINATED:
            done_synth[0] = True
    espeak.set_SynthCallback(cb)
    r = espeak.synth(*args)
    while r and not done_synth[0]:
        time.sleep(0.05)
    return r

Or using a proper mainloop (eg. from GLib):

import time
from espeak import espeak
from espeak import core as espeak_core
from gi.repository import GLib

def synth(*args):
    mainloop = GLib.MainLoop()
    def cb(event, pos, length):
        if event == espeak_core.event_MSG_TERMINATED:
            mainloop.quit()
    espeak.set_SynthCallback(cb)
    if espeak.synth(*args):
        mainloop.run()
        return True
    return False

(Which reminds me that these set_SynthCallback and espeak_core.event_MSG_TERMINATED are terrible, I should clean up the API some day.)

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Ok, thank you for this example !