No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyttsx3 has 881K monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 2.99, first published in 2017.

It is minimally maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jul 2025.

It is built on top of comtypes, pyobjc and pypiwin32. It is used by 259 tracked packages, including xtts-api-server, star-reader and nana-bot.

GitHub topics include pyttsx, text-to-speech and text-to-speech-python3.

Downloads
Day
23.4K
Week
178.3K
Month
881.0K
Stars
2.5K
Forks
357
Issues
75
Version
2.99

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
73
Adoption
59
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
204 days ago
Monthly downloads
881,014
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
881,014
Stars
2,518
Stars per 1k downloads
2.86
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
25,471
Month daily avg
29,367
Momentum
-13.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MPL-2.0
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
365 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
2.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
27
Monthly downloads
881,014
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
59
 
Issue Burden
29.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
160d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 10.0K
Windows 9.4K
macOS 717

Python Versions

3.12
25.5% 5.0K
3.11
24.2% 4.8K
3.14
23.7% 4.7K
3.13
15.0% 3.0K
3.10
11.6% 2.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
9.7K
2. IN IN
3.8K
3. CN CN
957
4. DE DE
418
5. PK PK
368
6. SG SG
354
7. BR BR
330
8. FR FR
311
9. RU RU
250
10. GB GB
247
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MPL-2.0
First Release
June 24, 2017
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
2.99
Total Releases
22
Contributors
27
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh