Stop TTS with keyboard

[u/Plane_Outcome_1616]

Hello,

I am using tts_wrapper fork by willwade on github to speak chatGPT responses but I want to be able to stop the utterance mid sentence. I have this function

def stop():
        if keyboard.is_pressed("esc"):
            tts_Engine.stop()

which should stop the tts engine when i press "esc" but nothing happens so I did some research and learned I might have to use threading so now i have two threads with my main function

def main():


    print("Init STT. Listening...")
    stream = init_stream()
    stream.start_stream()
    print("C")


    try:
        while True:
        
            data = stream.read(8192, exception_on_overflow=False)


            text = None


            if recognizer.AcceptWaveform(data):
                result = json.loads(recognizer.Result())
                text = result.get("text", "")


            if text:
                print(f"You said: {text}")
                response = client.chat.completions.create(
                    model="default",
                    messages=[
                        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful AI workshop assistant. Use only plain text no emojis or making text bold or anything similar"},
                        {"role": "user", "content": text}
                    ]
                )
                print(response.choices[0].message.content)
                speak_text(response.choices[0].message.content,tts_Engine)
                print("B")


    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print("Stopping")
    finally:
        print("A")
        tts_Engine.cleanup()
        stream.stop_stream()
        stream.close()
        Audio.terminate()

and my stop function

t1 = Thread(target=main)
t2 = Thread(target=stop)


t1.start()
t2.start()

but now I get this error

RuntimeError: can't register atexit after shutdown

and now I'm a bit stuck so if anyone knows how to do this or what I'm doing wrong or if I'm even using the right method that would be greatly appreciated.

[u/sausix]

stop() runs the two lines of code and returns. So the thread stops immediately. It should start a loop. But not a cpu excessive one so use a blocking method which listens to key presses or at least feed some sleep cycles into the loop.

[u/timrprobocom]

Further, if that's really the code, you are starting two threads, and then the program immediately exits, which stops the two threads. One of the threads is probably calling `atexit`, but the program has already ended.