speech_recognition: Install/compilation of PyAudio failed

Tried those apt commands ( I left our libportaudio2 as apt informed me it was already installed)

$ sudo apt install libasound-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudiocpp0

which resulted in

The following NEW packages will be installed: libasound2-dev libjack-dev libjack0 libportaudiocpp0 portaudio19-dev uuid-dev

Back to the VE, and although building the wheel fails, installed PyAudio

$ pip3 install pyaudio

Collecting pyaudio Using cached 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-7egcf6_n/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/tmps83qs996pip-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’

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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 … done Successfully installed pyaudio-0.2.11

Try the SpeechRecognition again

$ python3 -m speech_recognition

ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side ALSA lib pcm_route.c:867:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map ALSA lib pcm_route.c:867:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map ALSA lib pcm_route.c:867:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map ALSA lib pcm_route.c:867:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map A moment of silence, please… Set minimum energy threshold to 366.5422636248088 Say something! Got it! Now to recognize it… You said no no Say something! ^C

Seems to fix it. The readme at https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/blob/master/README.rst needs updating to reflect the additional packages required (if PyAudio is to be used)

I got the same error, and I found that the file “portaudio.h” was truly missing. So i first usebrew install portaudio and then pip install pyaudio . These work for me. If those commands still not work ,maybe this may help.

ubuntu: 1、sudo apt install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio 2、pip install PyAudio

Hi to everyone,

I think I had the same issue with PyAudio. The one where somehow there is a missing header file. I was able to solve it with something like

pip install pyaudio --global-option="-I/path/to/the/dir/of/portaudio.h" 

This basically injects header files to the build process while installing something with pip.

Ok, closing this one for now. If someone has the same problem, feel free to reopen but I think that my advice above should work. I’ll added it to the documentation at some point

I’m getting the error: error: option -I not recognised

😦

Installing collected packages: pyaudio Running setup.py install for pyaudio … error ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -u -c ‘import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = ‘"’"’/private/tmp/pip-install-XVUtNc/pyaudio/setup.py’“'”‘; file=’“'”‘/private/tmp/pip-install-XVUtNc/pyaudio/setup.py’“'”‘;f=getattr(tokenize, ‘"’“‘open’”’“‘, open)(file);code=f.read().replace(’”‘"’\r\n’“'”‘, ‘"’"’\n’“'”‘);f.close();exec(compile(code, file, ‘"’“‘exec’”’"‘))’ -I/path/to/the/dir/of/portaudio.h install --record /private/tmp/pip-record-MiW3OF/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile cwd: /private/tmp/pip-install-XVUtNc/pyaudio/ Complete output (6 lines): usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] …] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 …] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help

error: option -I not recognized
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ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -u -c ‘import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = ‘"’"’/private/tmp/pip-install-XVUtNc/pyaudio/setup.py’“'”‘; file=’“'”‘/private/tmp/pip-install-XVUtNc/pyaudio/setup.py’“'”‘;f=getattr(tokenize, ‘"’“‘open’”’“‘, open)(file);code=f.read().replace(’”‘"’\r\n’“'”‘, ‘"’"’\n’“'”‘);f.close();exec(compile(code, file, ‘"’“‘exec’”’"‘))’ -I/path/to/the/dir/of/portaudio.h install --record /private/tmp/pip-record-MiW3OF/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile Check the logs for full command output.

Hi to everyone,

I think I had the same issue with PyAudio. The one where somehow there is a missing header file. I was able to solve it with something like

pip install pyaudio --global-option="-I/path/to/the/dir/of/portaudio.h" 

This basically injects header files to the build process while installing something with pip.

While following @palikar i’m getting same error as @mertcanaltin gets

error: option -I not recognised

errro… in windows… its not working