how can I solve the error of installing pyaudio?

Question

I am installing different python libraries for my voice assistant project. I installed "speechrecognization" but I am not able to add pyaudio.

I got an error stating that

ERROR: Failed building wheel for PyAudio", Collecting PyAudio
  Using cached PyAudio-0.2.13.tar.gz (46 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: PyAudio
  Building wheel for PyAudio (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Building wheel for PyAudio (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1

and

Could not build wheels for PyAudio, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

I tried upgrading pip

pip install --upgrade pip

also,

sudo apt install build-essential portaudio19-dev python3.10-dev
pip install pyaudio

brew install portaudio
brew link --overwrite portaudio
pip install pyaudio

python -m pip install PyAudio

pip install PyAudio --upgrade

OS: Mac M1 chip Python 3.10.2

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score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 22 '23 at 01:07

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I tried installing PyAudio using Homebrew and it worked use the following command:

brew install portaudio
pip install pyaudio

This will first install the portaudio library using Homebrew, and then use pip to install PyAudio, which is a Python wrapper for portaudio.

edited Jan 22 '23 at 01:07

Gino Mempin

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answered Jan 22 '23 at 00:59

Grey Ace

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I don't understand, those are the same commands listed in the question...? – Gino Mempin Jan 22 '23 at 01:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '23 at 10:03

From the PyAudio project page; "PyAudio provides Python bindings for PortAudio v19, the cross-platform audio I/O library. With PyAudio, you can easily use Python to play and record audio on a variety of platforms, such as GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple macOS." https://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/

The project page does in fact state that this python module creates bindings to the PortAudio api. The author lists the steps necessary to install on macOS as being 1) use homebrew to install PortAudio 2) use pip to install PyAudio module. I was able to verify personally that these steps work as of MacOS 13.0.1 on Intel based macbook pro.

*Installing Homebrew via terminal; /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)

*Then installing PortAudio via brew; brew install portaudio

*and finally; pip3 install pyaudio

how can I solve the error of installing pyaudio?

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