speech_recognition: AttributeError: Could not find PyAudio; check installation

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

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(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

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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