From a83ea131621e0742f03139f62bdf5a9c3a5d404d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 22:03:33 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Speak aloud implementation for macOS

---
 src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py |  4 ++--
 src/calibre/gui2/tts/macos.py          | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/calibre/gui2/tts/macos.py

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py
index 7f8c3ffe36..3f90049baa 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from calibre.constants import iswindows, ismacos
 if iswindows:
     from .windows import Client
 elif ismacos:
-    pass
+    from .macos import Client
 else:
     from .linux import Client
-    Client
+Client
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tts/macos.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tts/macos.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3fee7077fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tts/macos.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
+# License: GPL v3 Copyright: 2020, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>
+
+
+class Client:
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        from calibre_extensions.cocoa import NSSpeechSynthesizer
+        self.nsss = NSSpeechSynthesizer()
+
+    def __del__(self):
+        self.nsss = None
+
+    def speak_simple_text(self, text):
+        self.nsss.speak(text)