Steps to reproduce

Hey I am just getting started with speech recignition and i was just checking some basic examples that i had found It was nothing too complicated, very simple things
The code i am using is below :

import speech_recognition as sr

# Record Audio
r = sr.Recognizer()
with sr.Microphone() as source:
    print("Say something!")
    audio = r.listen(source)
 
# Speech recognition using Google Speech Recognition
try:
    # for testing purposes, we're just using the default API key
    # to use another API key, use `r.recognize_google(audio, key="GOOGLE_SPEECH_RECOGNITION_API_KEY")`
    # instead of `r.recognize_google(audio)`
    print("You said: " + r.recognize_google(audio))
except sr.UnknownValueError:
    print("Google Speech Recognition could not understand audio")
except sr.RequestError as e:
    print("Could not request results from Google Speech Recognition service; {0}".format(e))

Expected behaviour

I expect it to just use my microphone and let me record something.

(What did you expect to happen?)

Actual behaviour

This is the error i get,

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-9-2b39d94ceb5b>", line 1, in <module>
    runfile('/home/sanwal092/Desktop/Python/SR/dummy.py', wdir='/home/sanwal092/Desktop/Python/SR')

  File "/home/sanwal092/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/utils/site/sitecustomize.py", line 866, in runfile
    execfile(filename, namespace)

  File "/home/sanwal092/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/utils/site/sitecustomize.py", line 102, in execfile
    exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)

  File "/home/sanwal092/Desktop/Python/SR/dummy.py", line 14, in <module>
    with sr.Microphone() as source:

  File "/home/sanwal092/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 78, in __init__
    self.pyaudio_module = self.get_pyaudio()

  File "/home/sanwal092/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 109, in get_pyaudio
    raise AttributeError("Could not find PyAudio; check installation")

AttributeError: Could not find PyAudio; check installation

When i run import pyauaudio as p;print(p.version)"`.) to check the version of pyaudio installed, i get the following error instead of the library working.

Could not import the PyAudio C module '_portaudio'.
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-11-b37da17f237b>", line 1, in <module>
    import pyaudio

  File "/home/sanwal092/pyaudio/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/pyaudio.py", line 116, in <module>
    import _portaudio as pa

  ImportError: /home/sanwal092/pyaudio/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/_portaudio.so: undefined symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct

(What happened instead? How is it different from what you expected?) I am not sure where the error is coming from. It must have something to do with my compilation of the libray maybe and i am not sure what to do from here on. Anyhelp would be appreciated

(If the library threw an exception, paste the full stack trace here)

System information

(Delete all the statements that don't apply.)

My system is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x64

My Python version is Python 3.6.0 :: Anaconda 4.3.1 (64-bit)

My Pip version is pip 9.0.1

My SpeechRecognition library version is 3.6.5

Steps to reproduce

Initially when i was working with this program in my raspberry pi running jessie, everything went so fine. But from today morning it is not picking any audio from usb microphone and always setting threshold values as 48.5477227879 even high noise and low noise situation.

so i tried to reinstall program again, eventhough it didnt worked for me.

after running main.py program it shows

"a moment of silence please.. Set minimum threshold to 48.5477227879 say something! "

thats it, after this nothing is happening.

After some time i tried to run it through terminal, it shiows error as " ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c :1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave" say some thing

what shall i do now to make this program run.

Expected behaviour

Run program without error and recognise speech.

Actual behaviour

scenario 1: Running from python

program running , no error, it shows "a moment of silence please.. Set minimum threshold to 48.5477227879 say something! "

and stay like this for whole time.

scenario 2: Running from terminal

"ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c :1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave ALSA lib pcm.c:2289:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) unknown PCM cards.pcm rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2289:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) unknown PCM cards.pcm center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2289:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) unknown PCM cards.pcm side ALSA lib pcm.c:2289:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) unknown PCM cards.pcm hdmi ALSA lib pcm.c:2289:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) unknown PCM cards.pcm hdmi ALSA lib pcm.c:2289:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) unknown PCM cards.pcm modem ALSA lib pcm.c:2289:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) unknown PCM cards.pcm modem ALSA lib pcm.c:2289:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) unknown PCM cards.pcm phoneline ALSA lib pcm.c:2289:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) unknown PCM cards.pcm phoneline ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c :1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave Say something"

and stay like this at all, no more recognition.

System information

My SpeechRecognition library version is <3.3.3>.

My PyAudio library version is <0.2.9>

I installed PocketSphinx from Debian repositories.

I want to convert speech to text in real time using the module SpeechRecognition 3.4.6 I've installed everything and now I am trying a simple code from example, here's the code:

import speech_recognition as sr

r = sr.Recognizer()
with sr.Microphone() as source:
    print("Say something!")
    audio = r.listen(source)


try:
    print("Sphinx thinks you said " + r.recognize_sphinx(audio))
except sr.UnknownValueError:
     print("Sphinx could not understand audio")
except sr.RequestError as e:
     print("Sphinx error; {0}".format(e)) `



I am getting error on line `audio=r.listen(sourc
  `import speech_recognition as sr
      r = sr.Recognizer()
      with sr.Microphone() as source:
          print("Say something!")
          audio = r.listen(source)
try:
    print("Sphinx thinks you said " + r.recognize_sphinx(audio))
except sr.UnknownValueError:
     print("Sphinx could not understand audio")
except sr.RequestError as e:
     print("Sphinx error; {0}".format(e)) 

I am getting error on line audio=r.listen(source)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sr.py", line 4, in <module>
audio = r.listen(source)                   # listen for the first    phrase and extract it into audio data
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-  packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 493, in listen
 buffer = source.stream.read(source.CHUNK)
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 139, in read
  return self.pyaudio_stream.read(size, exception_on_overflow = False)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyaudio.py", line 608, in read
 return pa.read_stream(self._stream, num_frames, exception_on_overflow)
 TypeError: function takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)

How to fix this problem.

Steps to reproduce

1. (How do you make the issue happen? Does it happen every time you try it?) `No sometimes the error doesn't acurr but randomly out of the blue it does.
2. My Code:

#JARVIS mark 10. python 3.5.1 version
#JUST.A.RATHER.VERY.INTELEGENT.SYSTEM.
##import speech_recognition
##import datetime
##import os
##import random
##import datetime
##import webbrowser
##import time
##import calendar
from difflib import SequenceMatcher
import nltk
from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize
from nltk.tokenize import PunktSentenceTokenizer
import speech_recognition as sr
import sys
from time import sleep
import os
import random
r = sr.Recognizer()
m = sr.Microphone()



#Brain functions, vocab!
what_i_should_call_someone = [""]
Good_Things = ["love","sweet","nice","happy","fun","awesome","great"]
Bad_Things = ["death","kill","hurt","harm","discomfort","rape","pain","sad","depression","depressed","angry","mad","broken","raging","rage"]
# Words that you might says in the beginning of your input, for example: "um hey where are we!?!"
Slang_Words = ["um","uh","hm","eh"]
# Put all greetings in here
Static_Greetings = ["Hey","Hi","Hello"]
# Put your AIs Name and other names just in case.
Name = ["jarvis"]
posible_answer_key_words = ["becuase","yes","no"]
Chance_that_question_was_asked_1 = 0
Chance_that_question_was_asked_2 = 0
certainty_question_was_asked = 0
Me_statment_keywords = ["you","your","yours"]
You_statment_keywords = ["i","i'm","me"]
global certainty_person_is_talking_to_me
what_i_said = ("")
Just_asked_querstion = False
the_last_thing_i_said = ("")
the_last_thing_person_said = ("")
what_person_said = ("")
what_person_said_means = [""]
what_im_about_to_say = [""]
why_im_about_to_say_it = [""]
who_im_talking_to = [""]
how_i_feel = [""]
why_do_i_feel_the_way_i_do = [""]
what_i_am_thinking = ("")
# ways to describe the nouns last said
it_pronouns = ["it","they","she","he"]
# last person place or thing described spoken or descussed!
last_nouns = [""]

# Sample of random questions so Jarvis has somthing to index to know what a question is!
Sample_Questions = ["what is the weather like","where are we today","why did you do that","where is the dog","when are we going to leave","why do you hate me","what is the Answer to question 8",
                    "what is a dinosour","what do i do in an hour","why do we have to leave at 6.00", "When is the apointment","where did you go","why did you do that","how did he win","why won’t you help me",
                    "when did he find you","how do you get it","who does all the shipping","where do you buy stuff","why don’t you just find it in the target","why don't you buy stuff at target","where did you say it was",
                    "when did he grab the phone","what happened at seven am","did you take my phone","do you like me","do you know what happened yesterday","did it break when it dropped","does it hurt everyday",
                    "does the car break down often","can you drive me home","where did you find me"
                    "can it fly from here to target","could you find it for me"]

Sample_Greetings = ["hey","hello","hi","hey there","hi there","hello there","hey jarvis","hey dude"]

Question_Keyword_Answer = []

Int_Question_Keywords_In_Input = []

Possible_Question_Key_Words = ["whats","what","where","when","why","isn't","whats","who","should","would","could","can","do","does","can","can","did"]

Possible_Greeting_Key_Words = ["hey","hi","hello",Name]

# In this function: Analyze the user input find out if it's (Question, Answer, Command. Etc) and what is being: Asked, Commanded, ETC.
def Analyze():


    def Analyze_For_Greeting():
       
        def Greeting_Keyword_Check():
                global Possible_Greeting_Key_Words
                Int_Greeting_Keywords_In_Input = []
                for words in what_person_said_l_wt:
                    if words in Possible_Greeting_Key_Words:
                        Int_Greeting_Keywords_In_Input.append(words)
                Amount_Greeting_Keywords = (len(Int_Greeting_Keywords_In_Input))
                if Amount_Greeting_Keywords > 0:
                    return True
        def Greeting_Sentence_Match():
             
                for Ran_Greeting in Sample_Greetings:
                    Greeting_Matcher = SequenceMatcher(None, Ran_Greeting, what_person_said_l).ratio()
                    if Greeting_Matcher > 0.5:
                        print (Greeting_Matcher)
                        print ("Similar to Greeting: "+Ran_Greeting)
                        return True


        
        Greeting_Keyword_Check()
        Greeting_Sentence_Match()
    
    #In this function: determin if the input is a question or not.
    def Analyze_For_Question():
            # In this function: if there is atleast one question keyword in the user input then return true.
            def Question_Keyword_Check():
                global Possible_Question_Key_Words
                Int_Question_Keywords_In_Input = []
                for words in what_person_said_l_wt:
                    if words in Possible_Question_Key_Words:
                        Int_Question_Keywords_In_Input.append(words)
                Amount_Question_keywords = (len(Int_Question_Keywords_In_Input))
                if Amount_Question_keywords > 0:
                    return True
            # In this function: if the users input is simular to other sample questions, return true.
            def Question_Sentence_Match():
                for Ran_Question in Sample_Questions:
                    Question_Matcher = SequenceMatcher(None, Ran_Question, what_person_said_l).ratio()
                    if Question_Matcher > 0.5:
                        print (Question_Matcher)
                        print ("Similar to Question: "+Ran_Question)
                        return True
            # In this function: if the first word of the users input is a question keyword and there is a different question keyword in the input return true.
            def Question_Verb_Noun_Check():
                #if you say "hey jarvis" before somthing like a question or command it will still understand
                try:
                    for word in what_person_said_l_wt:
                        if word in Static_Greetings or word in Name:
                                print (word)
                                Minus_Begin_Greet1 = what_person_said_l_wt.remove(word)
                                print (Minus_Begin_Greet1)
                                return True 
                except IndexError:
                    pass

            Question_Keyword_Check()                  
            Question_Sentence_Match()
            Question_Verb_Noun_Check()
            if Question_Keyword_Check()==True and Question_Sentence_Match()==True and Question_Verb_Noun_Check()==True:
                return True
            else:
                return False                


            
    # All the funtions in Analyze
    Analyze_For_Greeting()
    Analyze_For_Question() 

    if Analyze_For_Question()==True:
        print ("This was a Question")
    









Conversation=True
Conversation_Started=False

while Conversation==True:

    try:
        if Conversation_Started==False:
            #Greeting()
            Conversation_Started=True
            
        with m as source: r.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source)
        print(format(r.energy_threshold))
 
        print("Say something!") # just here for now and testing porposes so we know whats happening
        with m as source: audio = r.listen(source)
        print("Got it! Now to recognize it...")
        try:
            # recognize speech using Google Speech Recognition
            value = r.recognize_google(audio)

            # we need some special handling here to correctly print unicode characters to standard output
            if str is bytes:  # this version of Python uses bytes for strings (Python 2)
                print(u"You said {}".format(value).encode("utf-8"))
            else:  # this version of Python uses unicode for strings (Python 3+)
                print("You said {}".format(value))
                          
            what_person_said_l = value.lower()
            what_person_said_l_wt = word_tokenize(what_person_said_l)
            Analyze()
            
 
        except sr.UnknownValueError:
            print ("what was that?")
        except sr.RequestError as e:
            print("Uh oh! Sorry sir Couldn't request results from Google Speech Recognition service; {0}".format(e))
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass   
        

3. (If there are any files, like audio recordings, don't forget to include them.)

Expected behaviour

my code should do what it's suposed to do i don't see what you mean.

Actual behaviour

(If the library threw an exception, paste the full stack trace here)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/pi/TRAVELDRIVE/Jarvis(10.0).py", line 172, in <module>
    with m as source: r.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 140, in __enter__
    input=True,  # stream is an input stream
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pyaudio.py", line 750, in open
    stream = Stream(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pyaudio.py", line 441, in __init__
    self._stream = pa.open(**arguments)
OSError: [Errno -9999] Unanticipated host error
```_
System information
------------------

(Delete all the statements that don't apply.)

My **system** is <Raspbian PIxel>. (For example, "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x64", "Windows 10 x64", or "macOS Sierra".)

My **Python version** is <python3>. (You can check this by running `python -V`.)

My **Pip version** is <1.5.6 for python 2.7 but im using pip3>. (You can check this by running `pip -V`.)

My **SpeechRecognition library version** is <3.6.5>. (You can check this by running `python -c "import speech_recognition as sr;print(sr.__version__)"`.)

My **PyAudio library version** is <0.2.11> / I don't have PyAudio installed. (You can check this by running `python -c "import pyaudio as p;print(p.__version__)"`.)

Kubuntu 17.10.1 Python 3.6.3 Pip 9.0.1

Created a virtual environment and read through the SpeechRecognition instructions. Here are the steps

$ sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio

that went okay, it also installed libportaudio2

$ sudo apt-get install python3 python3-all-dev python3-pip build-essential swig git libpulse-dev

Apt also added the suggestions - "The following NEW packages will be installed: libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin libpcre16-3 libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 libpcrecpp0v5 libpulse-dev libpython3-all-dev pkg-config python3-all python3-all-dev swig swig3.0"

Then installed SpeechRecognition

$ pip install SpeechRecognition

Then tried SpeechRecognition and got an error

$ python3 -m speech_recognition Traceback (most recent call last): File ".../SpeechRecognition/lib/python3.6/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 "/usr/lib/python3.6/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main "main", mod_spec) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File ".../SpeechRecognition/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speech_recognition/main.py", line 4, in m = sr.Microphone() File ".../SpeechRecognition/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speech_recognition/init.py", line 79, in init self.pyaudio_module = self.get_pyaudio() File ".../SpeechRecognition/lib/python3.6/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

Tried installing PyAudio , even though it is already installed via Apt

$ pip3 install pyaudio Collecting pyaudio Downloading PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz Building wheels for collected packages: pyaudio Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pyaudio ... error Complete output from command .../SpeechRecognition/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-72_au_03/pyaudio/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmpu_qg0ulxpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36: usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: -c --help-commands or: -c cmd --help

error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

---

Failed building wheel for pyaudio Running setup.py clean for pyaudio Failed to build pyaudio Installing collected packages: pyaudio Running setup.py install for pyaudio ... error Complete output from command .../SpeechRecognition/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-72_au_03/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 /tmp/pip-feocjwqu-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers .../SpeechRecognition/include/site/python3.6/pyaudio: running install running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6 copying src/pyaudio.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6 running build_ext building '_portaudio' extension creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6 creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/src x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/python3.6-sXpGnM/python3.6-3.6.3=. -specs=/usr/share/dpkg/no-pie-compile.specs -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I.../SpeechRecognition/include -I/usr/include/python3.6m -c src/_portaudiomodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/src/_portaudiomodule.o src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:10: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory #include "portaudio.h" ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

---

Command ".../SpeechRecognition/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-72_au_03/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 /tmp/pip-feocjwqu-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers .../SpeechRecognition/include/site/python3.6/pyaudio" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-72_au_03/pyaudio/

This appears to be the same problem - https://github.com/SlapBot/stephanie-va/issues/8 . I will try the solution at https://github.com/SlapBot/stephanie-va/issues/8#issuecomment-307617796

Not sure if the following had an impact or not. The apt commands I used were run within a virtual environment, but I would have thought anything to do with Kubuntu packages would be system wide. I installed SpeechRecognition with pip instead of pip3 (I don't think it matters).

Although if I run pip3 or pip within the virtual environment, they both say version 9.0.1, yet if I run them both outside the virtual environment, it shows pip3 is installed but not pip.

code

import speech_recognition as sr
r = sr.Recognizer()
with sr.AudioFile("test.wav") as source:
    audio = r.record(source)

try:
    s = r.recognize_google(audio)
    print("Text: "+s)
except Exception as e:
    print("Exception: "+str(e))

error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 203, in __enter__
    self.audio_reader = wave.open(self.filename_or_fileobject, "rb")
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/wave.py", line 499, in open
    return Wave_read(f)
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/wave.py", line 163, in __init__
    self.initfp(f)
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/wave.py", line 143, in initfp
    self._read_fmt_chunk(chunk)
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/wave.py", line 260, in _read_fmt_chunk
    raise Error('unknown format: %r' % (wFormatTag,))
wave.Error: unknown format: 65534

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 208, in __enter__
    self.audio_reader = aifc.open(self.filename_or_fileobject, "rb")
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/aifc.py", line 912, in open
    return Aifc_read(f)
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/aifc.py", line 351, in __init__
    self.initfp(file_object)
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/aifc.py", line 316, in initfp
    raise Error('file does not start with FORM id')
aifc.Error: file does not start with FORM id

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 234, in __enter__
    self.audio_reader = aifc.open(aiff_file, "rb")
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/aifc.py", line 912, in open
    return Aifc_read(f)
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/aifc.py", line 357, in __init__
    self.initfp(f)
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/aifc.py", line 314, in initfp
    chunk = Chunk(file)
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/chunk.py", line 63, in __init__
    raise EOFError
EOFError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 21, in <module>
    with sr.AudioFile("test.wav") as source:
  File "/Users/robiulislam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 236, in __enter__
    raise ValueError("Audio file could not be read as PCM WAV, AIFF/AIFF-C, or Native FLAC; check if file is corrupted or in another format")
ValueError: Audio file could not be read as PCM WAV, AIFF/AIFF-C, or Native FLAC; check if file is corrupted or in another format

operating system is Mac & python version 3

Steps to reproduce

1. Trying to transcribe polish voice files basing on code from examples. I have tried with default and my generated API key.
2. `#!/usr/bin/env python3

import speech_recognition as sr

from os import path

AUDIO_FILE = path.join(path.dirname(path.realpath(file)), "test.flac")

r = sr.Recognizer() with sr.AudioFile(AUDIO_FILE) as source: audio = r.record(source) # read the entire audio file

GOOGLE_KEY = "mykey" lang = "pl"

try: print("Google Speech Recognition thinks you said " + r.recognize_google(audio, key = GOOGLE_KEY, language=lang)) except sr.UnknownValueError: print("Google Speech Recognition could not understand audio") except sr.RequestError as e: print("Could not request results from Google Speech Recognition service; {0}".format(e)) ` I use this file as test file - test.zip

Expected behaviour

Recognized polish text.

Actual behaviour

Every time i get the same error message: "Could not request results from Google Speech Recognition service; recognition request failed: Bad Gateway"

System information

My Python version is Python 2.7.11

My SpeechRecognition library version is 3.4.6

I don't have PyAudio installed.

I don't havePocketSphinx installed.

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I got this error after the recognition worked OK once.

Source code:

import speech_recognition as sr

r = sr.Recognizer()
m = sr.Microphone()
m.RATE = 44100
m.CHUNK = 512

print("A moment of silence, please...")
with m as source:
    r.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source)
    print("Set minimum energy threshold to {}".format(r.energy_threshold))
    while True:
        print("Say something!")
        audio = r.listen(source)
        print("Got it! Now to recognize it...")
        try:
            print("You said " + r.recognize(audio))
        except LookupError:
            print("Oops! Didn't catch that")

Error message:

A moment of silence, please...
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Set minimum energy threshold to 350.037988116
Say something!
Got it! Now to recognize it...
You said hello testing testing
Say something!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "listen.py", line 14, in <module>
    audio = r.listen(source)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 265, in listen
    buffer = source.stream.read(source.CHUNK)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pyaudio.py", line 564, in read
    return pa.read_stream(self._stream, num_frames)
IOError: [Errno Input overflowed] -9981

Hello!

I installed all modules for use the SpeechRecognition, and I checked that the modules was in the python modules. When I check the examples for use this SpeechRecognition in Terminal do the next:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "background_listening.py", line 19, in m = sr.Microphone() File "/home/javier/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speech_recognition/init.py", line 55, in init self.pyaudio_module = self.get_pyaudio() File "/home/javier/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speech_recognition/init.py", line 88, in get_pyaudio raise AttributeError("PyAudio 0.2.9 or later is required (found version {0})".format(pyaudio.version)) AttributeError: PyAudio 0.2.9 or later is required (found version 0.2.8)

Why this function does this? because my version of pyaudio is 0.2.9.

I will like that somebody help me please Thanks.

The library is awesome and, even as green as I am, I nearly have it working. I'm playing around with it in PyCharm but after one or two recordings, it gives me an error. This is my output.

A moment of silence, please...
2015-12-04 23:39:04.175 Python[40487:860874] 23:39:04.175 WARNING:  140: This application, or a library it uses, is using the deprecated Carbon Component Manager for hosting Audio Units. Support for this will be removed in a future release. Also, this makes the host incompatible with version 3 audio units. Please transition to the API's in AudioComponent.h.
Set minimum energy threshold to 74.0823600901
Say something!
Got it! Now to recognize it...
You said please
Say something!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/stevenchun/PycharmProjects/VoiceRecognition/speech_recognition/__main__.py", line 29, in <module>
    print("Uh oh! Couldn't request results from Google Speech Recognition service; {0}".format(e))
  File "/Users/stevenchun/PycharmProjects/VoiceRecognition/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 80, in __exit__
    if not self.stream.is_stopped():
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyaudio.py", line 543, in is_stopped
    return pa.is_stream_stopped(self._stream)
IOError: [Errno -9988] Stream closed

I downloaded this all today so I have the most recent version as well as the most recent version of PyAudio. I haven't changed main at all, but here it is anyway:

import speech_recognition as sr

r = sr.Recognizer()
m = sr.Microphone()

try:
    print("A moment of silence, please...")
    with m as source:
        r.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source)
        print("Set minimum energy threshold to {}".format(r.energy_threshold))
        while True:
            print("Say something!")
            audio = r.listen(source)
            print("Got it! Now to recognize it...")
            try:
                # recognize speech using Google Speech Recognition
                value = r.recognize_google(audio)
                # we need some special handling here to correctly print unicode characters to standard output
                if str is bytes: # this version of Python uses bytes for strings (Python 2)
                    print(u"You said {}".format(value).encode("utf-8"))

                else: # this version of Python uses unicode for strings (Python 3+)
                    print("You said {}".format(value))

            except sr.UnknownValueError:
                print("Oops! Didn't catch that")
            except sr.RequestError as e:
                print("Uh oh! Couldn't request results from Google Speech Recognition service; {0}".format(e))

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass

At first I thought the program was trying to access Google Speech too rapidly (more than once per second as is allowed), but putting in time.sleep(1) didn't work.

Any ideas? Thanks a bunch

Steps to reproduce

1. Record audio from an USB audio interface (Focusrite Scarlett) with Microphone() instance
2. Save to file with Pythons wave module

Here's an exemplary code that shows what I do (copied together from actual source):

import speech_recognition as sr
import wave

mic_index = 7  # focusrite scarlett input

recognizer = sr.Recognizer()
mic = sr.Microphone(device_index=mic_index)

print('Recording...')
with mic as source:
    recognizer.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source, duration=0.2)
    audio = recognizer.listen(source, timeout=1, phrase_time_limit=5)
    
wave_file = wave.open('audiotest.wav', 'wb')
wave_file.setnchannels(1)
wave_file.setsampwidth(2)
wave_file.setframerate(16000)
wave_file.writeframes(audio.get_wav_data(convert_rate=16000))
wave_file.close()

Expected behaviour

The written wave file should sound like the original audio source: clean and correct tempo

Actual behaviour

The written wave file sounds somewhat choppy and way too fast. audiotest.wav.zip

Recording audio from the device with arecord -D plughw:1,0 -f cd -d 5 alsatest.wav produces a clean result.

System information

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My system is Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon.

My Python version is 3.8.10.

My Pip version is 20.0.2.

My SpeechRecognition library version is 3.9.0.

My PyAudio library version is 0.2.13

My microphones are:

HDA NVidia: HDMI 0 (hw:0,3)
HDA NVidia: HDMI 1 (hw:0,7)
HDA NVidia: HDMI 2 (hw:0,8)
HDA NVidia: HDMI 3 (hw:0,9)
HDA NVidia: HDMI 4 (hw:0,10)
HDA NVidia: HDMI 5 (hw:0,11)
HDA NVidia: HDMI 6 (hw:0,12)
Scarlett 2i2 USB: Audio (hw:1,0)
HD-Audio Generic: ALC1220 Analog (hw:2,0)
HD-Audio Generic: ALC1220 Digital (hw:2,1)
HD-Audio Generic: ALC1220 Alt Analog (hw:2,2)
C922 Pro Stream Webcam: USB Audio (hw:3,0)
hdmi
pulse
default

My working microphones are:

  7: 'Scarlett 2i2 USB: Audio (hw:1,0)', 
  11: 'C922 Pro Stream Webcam: USB Audio (hw:3,0)', 
  13: 'pulse', 
  14: 'default'
}

As i know the solution of this i would not post my personal specs. When calling recognize_google method of speech_recognition it prints the entire JSON response, investigating the problem is on the 917 and 918 lines of speech_recognition_init_.py The prints are unindented so the all the JSON result is printing constantly on console.

I dont think this is how it is supossed to work at all. Don't want to create a pull request for this as i dont know well how, just hoping someone notices! Thank you!

Due to Windows' limitations on temporary files, we use a custom temporary file provider to ensure Whisper TTS can work on windows.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23212435/permission-denied-to-write-to-my-temporary-file

This isn't so much an issue, but more so a question that I was unable to find answers for on the regular forums. I was wondering if there was any way to use speech_recognition on a link? What I mean is, if I was to give the API this link: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/payload/audio.mp3?p=06AD1IbLD6eKKII77YoDkinG3lWV0q-eU3T4-3GBEb2xj9V0ZFBbNNCew_GRjMw5sOEd5RDEVbrub-V3v7i6YD6xiK1DGnXWORPTb76o3vrSlc9OcIhd0ENIhnubSq-9HMm69JnsJ_RKZlesGxJWbm3WLe67vojeFlcmiFOFBk_jP4xKmLvx1gK_3lCyN7ByN-1rdoVNkHEC&k=6LeTnxkTAAAAAN9QEuDZRpn90WwKk_R1TRW_g-JC How could I run the speech_recognition software on it. If it is not possible with this api, could someone guide me to the api necessary to do this. I'd prefer it if I didn't have to download the .wav itself, as it comes in a .mp3 format and it would require me to transform it to .wav.

System information

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My system is <Ubuntu 22.04 LTs x64>.

My Python version is <3.10.6>

My Pip version is <22.0.2>

My SpeechRecognition library version is <3.9.0>

My PyAudio library version is <0.2.13> My microphones are: (partial output) 'HDA Intel PCH: ALC257 Analog (hw:0,0)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 0 (hw:0,3)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 1 (hw:0,7)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 2 (hw:0,8)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 3 (hw:0,9)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 4 (hw:0,10)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 5 (hw:0,11)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 6 (hw:0,12)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 7 (hw:0,13)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 8 (hw:0,14)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 9 (hw:0,15)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 10 (hw:0,16)', 'HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 11 (hw:0,17)', 'sysdefault', 'front', 'surround40', 'surround51', 'surround71', 'hdmi', 'samplerate', 'speexrate', 'pulse', 'upmix', 'vdownmix', 'dmix', 'default']

My working microphones are: {0: 'HDA Intel PCH: ALC257 Analog (hw:0,0)', 13: 'sysdefault', 19: 'samplerate', 20: 'speexrate', 21: 'pulse', 25: 'default'}

I installed PocketSphinx from

I am getting a quite loud audio spike / noise sound at the end of an audio play in python when using the following script: https://gist.github.com/bbence84/04d1935a92a4b4ab3d44bf182ea4bcc1 Wav to be played, but it does it with any other wav or mp3 file: https://easyupload.io/vbat12

It uses the speech_recognition package and the preferredsoundplayer package, but also the VLC python package shows the same when playing the audio.

When changing the audio play to be non-blocking for the python script, the issue goes away... Very strange. 

This is driviging me nuts.

I'm on Armbian 22.11.1 Jammy / 22.04.1 LTS, kernel 5.15.80-sunxi. Orange Pi Zero LTS.

Thanks for any ideas!

Bence

Sorry, it's maybe just me but even after reading couple of issues and the docs, I am not sure what the difference and pros and cons of these different recognize methods? Is e.g. recognize_google_cloud better / faster / more accurate than the "legacy" recognize_google? Which one should I use? Thanks! :)