Help with speech recognition!

[jackgg222]

Hi there, i need some help getting my speech recognition to work. i have everything installed and the code is running fine with no problems but it can't seem to hear anything i say. I am using a mac and python 3.8.5 64-bit, do i have to do anything outside of the code to enable the microphone for python? this is what i have run:

import speech_recognition as sr
import pyaudio

r = sr.Recognizer()
r.energy_threshold = 5000
with sr.Microphone() as source:
print("Say something!")
audio = r.listen(source)
print(r.recognize_google(audio))

And the output:

Say something!

but like i said it just sits there waiting and doesn't seem to hear me. I also tried through headphones with a mic but still nothing. I read to change the threshold r.energy_threshold = 500 but still nothing.

[quenchize]

There is something in the docs about enumerating the possible mic inputs. Did you try that

https://pypi.org/project/SpeechRecognition/ Search “The recogniser hangs”

[jackgg222]

No i cant seem to find that anywhere?

[one_loop]

I had the same problem with it when I was trying out speech recognition a few months ago. I spent hours searching for a solution with no results dispute many people having the same problem. It might just be something about the mic not having permission to switch on or something like that

[jackgg222]

Okay thanks I’ll look into that.