Compatibility issues with Ubuntu while using tts engine for windows

[sabinasalim]

How can I run the project in Ubuntu since the object_detection.py file uses windows "win32com.client" for windows. Is there any alternative tts engine for ubuntu or is it only compatible with windows os.

The error is as follows:
import win32com.client as wincl Traceback (most recent call last): File "object_detection.py", line 18, in <module> import win32com.client as wincl ImportError: No module named 'win32com'

[paul-pias]

Thank you for reaching out!
You can use espeak instead of win32com.

First, try to install using the following command from your terminal.

• sudo apt-get install espeak python3-espeak

Then import in the object_detection.py script

• from espeak import espeak

and replace the #244 line with

• espeak.synth(feedback)

I hope it will resolve the issue. Kindly let me know if it works or not.

[sabinasalim]

Thank you for your response. I have followed the instructions but after installing espeak via pip I encountered another error. In import espeak command returns an error. Adding code for reference.
In pip-list also the espeak package is not found.

File "object_detection.py",line 18, in <module> from espeak import speak ImportError : No module named 'espeak'

[paul-pias]

The previous installation format is for python version <=2.7.
For python3 try the following command

• sudo apt-get install espeak python3-espeak

Hope it will resolve the issue.

[sabinasalim]

Thank you for your response.i have followed the instructions but same error is encountered.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "object_detection.py", line 18, in
from espeak import espeak
ImportError: No module named 'espeak'

[paul-pias]

Can you run pip3 list and python3 object_detection.py from your terminal and share the picture of both the terminals?

[sabinasalim]

The above error was recified. But , something new came up. Any idea what this is?

File "object_detection.py", line 254, in <module> object_detection() File "object_detection.py", line 147, in object_detection model.load_weights(weightsfile) File "/home/acer-10/Desktop/object/darknet.py", line 436, in load_weights bn_biases = bn_biases.view_as(bn.bias.data) RuntimeError: shape '[32]' is invalid for input of size 28

[sabinasalim]

Package Version

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camera 1.3.0
certifi 2018.8.24
chardet 3.0.4
Click 7.0
cycler 0.10.0
Flask 1.1.1
gevent 1.4.0
greenlet 0.4.15
idna 2.8
itsdangerous 1.1.0
Jinja2 2.11.0
kiwisolver 1.1.0
MarkupSafe 1.1.1
matplotlib 3.0.3
numpy 1.14.2
opencv-python 4.1.2.30
pandas 0.25.3
Pillow 7.0.0
pip 20.0.2
pyad 0.6.0
pyparsing 2.4.6
python-dateutil 2.8.1
pytz 2019.3
requests 2.22.0
setuptools 40.2.0
six 1.14.0
torch 1.4.0
urllib3 1.25.8
Werkzeug 0.16.1
wheel 0.31.1

[sabinasalim]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "object_detection.py", line 18, in
from espeak import espeak
ImportError: No module named 'espeak'

[paul-pias]

Try changing the numpy version to "numpy==1.17.0"

[shashi-dhuppe]

HI, I am not able to locate similar thing for Mac. Can you help out? I am currently getting the same error @sabinasalim got when he tired to run in Ubuntu.

[HassanBinHaroon]

Check out the following relevant and easiest implementation. No compatibility issues hopefully.

https://github.com/HassanBinHaroon/object_detection-PLUS-distance_estimation-v1