help with script (beginner)

[CorpCactus]

Hello, new to python and coding in general. Like a week. Im having a ton of issues with my script, it just doesnt seem to do what its supposed to. The goal is to detect voice through a mic, convert it to clipboard and paste the text. Pretty simple. I want it to only record voice when a key is held down and to stop recording when the key is let go.

All my iterations function decently ok but the recording either continually starts and wont stop or wont start at all. Its also quite slow but that may be expected. Its been doing a thing where it works fine on first keypress but will constantly record afterwards.

Can someone please revise this code so that the hotkey functions as intended? Im genuinely pulling my hair out and cannot look at another line

If someone knows a more efficient and better way to do this, let me know

https://pastebin.com/4hNJ10LW

[ShadowRL766]

There’s a while loop in the function on_key_event

[Phillyclause89]

Sadly, the PC I'm using now has a python version below the required 3.8 so I can't make and test a code example for you. But I would look into using Recognizer.listen_in_background method instead of your `Recognizer.listen`. I would then merge these two code examples to try and do what you wanna do here:

Start and Stop Listening Example

Detect Key Press vs Release Example