speech recognition python code not working

Question

I am running the following code in Python 2.7 with pyAudio installed.

import speech_recognition as sr
r = sr.Recognizer()
with sr.Microphone() as source:             


        

Answer 1

have you tried replacing

    print("You said " + r.recognize(audio))
    except LookupError:                          
    print("Could not understand audio")

with

    text = r.recognize_google(audio)
    print("You said : {}".format(text))
    text = r.recognize_google(audio)
    except:
        print("Sorry could not recognize your voice")

ensure pyaudio.h is installed by running the below command

    sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio