From 495ef9185fb56b8eba3a47d87a0fd5165cfd6969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: thevickypedia <vignesh.sivanandarao@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:37:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Bug fix for macOS failing to save audio file

---
 pyttsx3/__init__.py     | 2 +-
 pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyttsx3/__init__.py b/pyttsx3/__init__.py
index 9f562d1..3b05b89 100644
--- a/pyttsx3/__init__.py
+++ b/pyttsx3/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 from .engine import Engine
 
-version = '3.3'
+version = '3.4.0'
 _activeEngines = weakref.WeakValueDictionary()
 
 
diff --git a/pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py b/pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py
index c4d49e1..08a78f6 100644
--- a/pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py
+++ b/pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import time
+
 # noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
 from AppKit import NSSpeechSynthesizer
 from Foundation import *
@@ -141,6 +143,8 @@ def setProperty(self, name, value):
     def save_to_file(self, text, filename):
         url = Foundation.NSURL.fileURLWithPath_(filename)
         self._tts.startSpeakingString_toURL_(text, url)
+        # waits (for 1% of the length of text) the system to finish writing to the file system before continuing
+        time.sleep(max(1.0, len(text) * 0.01))
 
     def speechSynthesizer_didFinishSpeaking_(self, tts, success):
         if not self._completed: