'Is there a way to use pyttsx3 in a python3.7 environment?

I'm working on my raspberry pi4 with a virtual environment of version3.7. I've successfully downloaded the package on my raspberry pi(pyttsx3: latest one)but still encountering an error.

This is my code:

    import pyttsx3
    talkbot = pyttsx3.init()
    talkbot.say("Hello")
    talkbot.runAndWait

This is the error:

   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/pi/virtenv3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyttsx3/__init__.py", line 20, in 
   init
   eng = _activeEngines[driverName]
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/weakref.py", line 137, in __getitem__
   o = self.data[key]()
   KeyError: None

   During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "talkingprogram.py", line 3, in <module>
   talkbot = pyttsx3.init()
   File "/home/pi/virtenv3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyttsx3/__init__.py", line 22, in init
   eng = Engine(driverName, debug)
   File "/home/pi/virtenv3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyttsx3/engine.py", line 30, in __init__
   self.proxy = driver.DriverProxy(weakref.proxy(self), driverName, debug)
   File "/home/pi/virtenv3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyttsx3/driver.py", line 50, in __init__
   self._module = importlib.import_module(name)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
   return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
   File "/home/pi/virtenv3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/espeak.py", line 9, 
   in <module>
   from . import _espeak, toUtf8, fromUtf8
   File "/home/pi/virtenv3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/_espeak.py", line 18, 
   in <module>
   dll = cdll.LoadLibrary('libespeak.so.1')
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 442, in LoadLibrary
   return self._dlltype(name)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 364, in __init__
   self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
   OSError: libespeak.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


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