For folks who want to try this at home on Mac OS X, you'll need to change 'sapi5' to 'nsss' on the line 'speech_engine = pyttsx.init('sapi5')'. I also had to '

For folks who want to try this at home on Mac OS X, you'll need to change 'sapi5' to 'nsss' on the line 'speech_engine = pyttsx.init('sapi5')'. I also had to 'brew install portaudio flac swig' and a bunch of other python libs. By the time it ran, 'pip freeze' returned: altgraph==0.12 macholib==1.7 modulegraph==0.12.1 py2app==0.9 PyAudio==0.2.9 pyobjc==3.0.4 pyttsx==1.1 SpeechRecognition==3.3.0 pocketsphinx==0.0.9 My fork of the gist is here: https://gist.github.com/ivanistheone/b988d3de542c1bdd6a90 https://gist.github.com/ivanistheone/b988d3de542c1bdd6a90