Speech stopped working saying: no listeners registered

[mrpiet]

I thought I was doing something wrong in my app so I created a new blank project with npx create-expo-app, installed expo-speech and copied the code from the docs (Speech - Expo Documentation) and got the same problem I was seeing in my app. I’m using expo “expo”: “~49.0.7”,

As soon as I save the code in the new project I get this error:

WARN new NativeEventEmitter() was called with a non-null argument without the required addListener method.

WARN new NativeEventEmitter() was called with a non-null argument without the required removeListeners method.

WARN Sending Exponent.speakingStopped with no listeners registered.

Googling I saw that many developers are having this problem after updating but with other libraries. How could this be solved? Because even though I can hear the voice, it’s not working correctly, onStart and onDone are never triggered:

const speak = () => {        
    Speech.speak(response, {
        onStart: () => setIsPlaying(true),
        onDone: () => setIsPlaying(false),
        
    });     
  };

Hopefully somebody can help me out with this.

[magician11]

I have the same issue. It only happens on iOS for me. Android doesn’t have this issue.