To use all of the functionality of the library, you should have:
- Python 2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+ (required)
- PyAudio 0.2.11+ (required only if you need to use microphone input,
Microphone) - Google API Client Library for Python (required only if you need to use the Google Cloud Speech API,
recognizer_instance.recognize_google_cloud)
First, make sure you have all the requirements listed in the "Requirements" section.
The easiest way to install this is using pip install SpeechRecognition.
Quickstart: pip install SpeechRecognition. See the "Installing" section for more details.
To quickly try it out, run python -m speech_recognition after installing.
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The first software requirement is Python 2.6, 2.7, or Python 3.3+. This is required to use the library.
PyAudio is required if and only if you want to use microphone input (Microphone). PyAudio version 0.2.11+ is required, as earlier versions have known memory management bugs when recording from microphones in certain situations.
If not installed, everything in the library will still work, except attempting to instantiate a Microphone object will raise an AttributeError.
The installation instructions on the PyAudio website are quite good - for convenience, they are summarized below:
- On Windows, install PyAudio using Pip: execute pip install pyaudio in a terminal.
- On OS X, install PortAudio using Homebrew: brew install portaudio. Then, install PyAudio using Pip: pip install pyaudio.
3.PyAudio wheel packages for common 64-bit Python versions on Windows. simply run pip install wheel followed by pip install ./third-party/WHEEL_FILENAME (replace pip with pip3 if using Python 3) in the repository `root directory
Google Cloud Speech library for Python is required if and only if you want to use the Google Cloud Speech API (recognizer_instance.recognize_google_cloud).
If not installed, everything in the library will still work, except calling recognizer_instance.recognize_google_cloud will raise an RequestError.