AttributeError: Could not find PyAudio; check installation...can't use speech Recognition

Mo .haytham picture Mo .haytham · May 4, 2019 · Viewed 23.3k times · Source

I'm trying to make a basic speech Recognition assistant. When I run the code, it tells me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Mo.haytham\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\speech_recognition\__init__.py", line 108, in get_pyaudio
    import pyaudio
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyaudio'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Mo.haytham/.PyCharmCE2018.3/config/scratches/ALPHA_BASIC.py", line 22, in <module>
    hear()
  File "C:/Users/Mo.haytham/.PyCharmCE2018.3/config/scratches/ALPHA_BASIC.py", line 13, in hear
    with sr.Microphone() as sourse:
  File "C:\Users\Mo.haytham\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\speech_recognition\__init__.py", line 79, in __init__
    self.pyaudio_module = self.get_pyaudio()
  File "C:\Users\Mo.haytham\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\speech_recognition\__init__.py", line 110, in get_pyaudio
    raise AttributeError("Could not find PyAudio; check installation")
AttributeError: Could not find PyAudio; check installation 

I tried to pip install pyaudio but then this error shows up:

Running setup.py clean for pyaudio
Failed to build pyaudio
Installing collected packages: pyaudio
  Running setup.py install for pyaudio ... error
    ERROR: Complete output from command 'c:\users\mo.haytham\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\python.exe' -u -c 'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\MO2D8C~1.HAY\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-o2
10x3zl\\pyaudio\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\MO2
D8C~1.HAY\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-hr7kket1\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    ERROR: running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.7
    copying src\pyaudio.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7
    running build_ext
    building '_portaudio' extension
    error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command "'c:\users\mo.haytham\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\python.exe' -u -c 'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\MO2D8C~1.HAY\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-o210x3zl\\pyaudio\\setup.p
y'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\MO2D8C~1.HAY\AppData\Local\
Temp\pip-record-hr7kket1\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\MO2D8C~1.HAY\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-o210x3zl\pyaudio\
def hear():
    import speech_recognition as sr
    ear = sr.Recognizer()
    with sr.Microphone() as sourse:
        print("listening...")
        audio = ear.listen(sourse)
        try:
            text = ear.recognize_google(audio)
            print(text)
        except:
            print("i didn't get that...")

hear()

Answer

user3248990 picture user3248990 · Nov 26, 2019

In Terminal type

pip install pipwin

Then

pipwin install pyaudio