Trying to install pyaudio using pip

Question

I try to install pyaudio in pycharm, and

I get this error

error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\BIN\\cl.exe' 
failed with exit status 2

I used pip install pyaudio command.

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• I downloaded PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl

• try to install it using this command

  pip install PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64
  

but it does not work and get this error

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64 (from versions: none) 
ERROR: No matching distribution found for PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64

Answer 1

Try this:

pip install pipwin
pipwin install pyaudio

pipwin is like pip, but it installs precompiled Windows binaries provided by Christoph Gohlke. Saves you a lot of manual googling and downloading.

Answer 2

Maybe this is not a solution to your error, but it is one of the easiest ways to install it on Windows.

You can simply grab the proper Wheel package based on current Python version from here and then install it with pip install <PyAudio‑0.2.11-...>. Also, there is no need to have MSVC installed.