Well, it works now;
apparently somebody chose a strange name for the **synthetizer** class: NSSpeechSynthesizer !! The following method (actually copying more closely the spelling of Hillegass' example) works: def init(self): NSLog("init") self.speechSynth = NSSpeechSynthesizer.alloc() self.speechSynth.initWithVoice_(None) return self My question is now: why do I have to skip the obj-C [super init]; line in Python? Thanks Aldo _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig