import pyttsx3
import threading
import time

halt = 0

class KeyEventThread(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        while (True):
            global halt
            #print("Hello")
            #time.sleep(10)
            z = input('Press enter to pause')
            halt = 1

kethread = KeyEventThread()
kethread.start()

engine = pyttsx3.init()

#engine.say('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.')
#engine.runAndWait()

fname = "marks.txt"

with open(fname) as f:
    content = f.readlines()
#Remove whitespace characters like `\n` at the end of each line
content = [x.strip() for x in content]


for mark in content:
    if (halt == 1):
        #break
        time.sleep(10)
        halt = 0
    print ('saying '  +  mark)
    engine.say(mark)
    engine.say('.')
    engine.runAndWait()
    #input()