PyAudio
is
required
for input from the Mac microphone.
I had to install
portaudio
before I could install
PyAudio.
I had to
chown
(“change owner”)
and
chmod
(“change mode”)
before I could
install
portaudio.
pip3 install SpeechRecognition pip3 show SpeechRecognition Name: SpeechRecognition Version: 3.8.1 Summary: Library for performing speech recognition, with support for several engines and APIs, online and offline. Home-page: https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition#readme Author: Anthony Zhang (Uberi) Author-email: azhang9@gmail.com License: BSD Location: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages Requires: Required-by: sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/share/man/man7 chmod u+w /usr/local/share/man/man7 ls -ld /usr/local/share/man/man7 drwxr-xr-x 26 myname wheel 832 Mar 10 2019 /usr/local/share/man/man7 brew --help brew list gdbm pkg-config python3 sqlite openssl python readline xz brew install portaudio brew list gdbm pkg-config python readline xz openssl portaudio python3 sqlite pip3 install PyAudio pip3 show PyAudio Name: PyAudio Version: 0.2.11 Summary: PortAudio Python Bindings Home-page: http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/ Author: Hubert Pham Author-email: UNKNOWN License: UNKNOWN Location: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages Requires: Required-by: python3 -m speech_recognition A moment of silence, please... Set minimum energy threshold to 50.8320699286259 Say something! (I said “hello”.) Got it! Now to recognize it... You said hello Say something! Got it! Now to recognize it... You said goodbye Say something! Got it! Now to recognize it... You said stop Say something! Got it! Now to recognize it... You said two houses both alike in dignity Say something! control-c
"""
Print what the user says (or sings).
pip3 install SpeechRecognition
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/share/man/man7
chmod u+w /usr/local/share/man/man7
brew install portaudio
pip3 install PyAudio
Python code copied from "Recognize speech input from the microphone" example in
https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition#readme
"""
import sys
import speech_recognition
recognizer = speech_recognition.Recognizer()
print(f"The energy threshold is {recognizer.energy_threshold}.")
print(f"The pause threshold is {recognizer.pause_threshold} second(s).")
with speech_recognition.Microphone() as source: #Python context manager
print("Please say something. I'm listening to the microphone.")
audio = recognizer.listen(source)
print("You seem to be done speaking, so I stopped listening to the microphone.")
print(f"size = {len(audio.frame_data):,} bytes")
print(f"sample rate = {audio.sample_rate:,} samples per second")
print(f"sample width = {audio.sample_width} bytes")
try:
seconds = len(audio.frame_data) / (audio.sample_rate * audio.sample_width)
except ZeroDivisionError: #This style is EAFP (vs. LBYL).
pass #Do nothing.
else:
print(f"duration = {seconds:.3f} seconds")
#Recognize speech using Google Speech Recognition.
try:
s = recognizer.recognize_google(audio, language = "en-US") #s is a string.
except speech_recognition.UnknownValueError: #unintelligible
print("Google Speech Recognition could not understand audio", file = sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
except speech_recognition.RequestError as error: #no Internet connection
print(f"Could not request results from Google Speech Recognition service: {error}",
file = sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
print(f"Google Speech Recognition thinks you said")
print()
print(s)
sys.exit(0)
To make sure the macOS microphone is on,
pull down the apple in the upper left corner of the screen
and select
System Preferences… → Sound → Input
and turn up the Input volume.
“IDLE.app” would like to access the microphone. Don’t Allow OK
44100 = 2102 is a perfect square.
The energy threshold is 300. The pause threshold is 0.8 second(s). Please say something. I'm listening to the microphone. You seem to be done speaking, so I stopped listening to the microphone. size = 471,040 bytes sample rate = 44,100 samples per second sample width = 2 bytes duration = 5.341 seconds Google Speech Recognition thinks you said Double Double Toil and Trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble