Found a way to have it not infinite loop but it requires us to initialize pyttsx3 every time we want the robot to say something, although it works it seems somewhat resource intensive since we have to reinitialize it everytime

So Im trying to replicate this..

import pyttsx3

def say(theengine, text): 
    if (theengine._inLoop):
        theengine.endLoop()
    theengine.say(text)
    theengine.runAndWait()

engine = pyttsx3.init()
say(engine, "Hello, World!")

Have I got that right? That is not looping for me (although I am working in PR #329 - so test with that if you can just incase its me)

Unfortunately we do not have access to the exact system we tested on. Although this issue primarily showed up on a raspberry pi 4, I believe we narrowed the issue down to global initialization with threading, somehow with the threading we couldn"t reach the global engine. The solution was to initialize it every time we needed speech, and that seemed to work alright for what we needed it to do.