How do I install PyAudio on Python 3.7?

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I am currently trying to install PyAudio on Python 3.7 but when I use the command "pip install pyaudio", an error message appears:

  "command 'cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory".

I have already tried to modify the PATH but it doesn't work. I thought maybe someone could help me?

Hiadore · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-24T09:54:49.527

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Download the wheel on this site https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyaudio.

Choose PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win32.whl if you use 32 bit, or PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl for 64 bit. Then go to your download folder:

cd <your_donwload_path>

Then, for 64 bit:

pip install PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl

or for 32 bit:

pip install PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win32.whl

edited Jun 24 '20 at 09:54

answered Mar 05 '19 at 09:38

Hiadore

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May you use 32 bit python? If then, you need to download 32 bit version of PyAudio. – Hiadore Oct 09 '19 at 01:35
It just gives me the error: "ERROR: PyAudio-0.2.11-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform." FYI - I am on a mac – Darrow Hartman May 16 '20 at 17:07
@DarrowHartman, it's just for windows. It's stated on the page title: Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages. – Hiadore May 18 '20 at 01:07
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@Hiadore, I get this error: ```ERROR: PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.``` on windows after following your suggested steps. Any hints as to why this is happening? – Shrey Tripathi Jun 04 '20 at 12:00
My machine and python version 3.7 is 64 bit, but the 64 bit .whl file didn't work – Divyanshu Kushwaha Jun 23 '20 at 08:21
@ShreyTripathi and DivyanshuKushwaha, can you show me the error message? – Hiadore Jun 24 '20 at 09:57
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It says `ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\Python\\Python38\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyAudio-0.2.11-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl'` ((( – Aug 23 '20 at 18:38

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '20 at 07:24

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WINDOWS

pip install pipwin
pipwin install pyaudio

This will install pyaudio

answered Jan 07 '20 at 07:24

Joljas Kerketta

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score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

It is supported in Python 3.7. Even though not officially on standalone 3.7, Anaconda 2019.10 which uses 3.7 has it. So you have 2 options:

You can conda install -c anaconda pyaudio, if you use Anaconda
Or for standalone Python 3.7 you can:

2a) After installing the .whl, build portaudio.dll just following the instructions at http://portaudio.com/docs/v19-doxydocs/compile_windows.html. I used VS2019 and i worked. Note if you choose ASIO option you will need ASIO SDK from https://www.steinberg.net/en/company/developers.html

After that just put portaudio.dll anywhere in your system path or local directory and you can import pyaudio.

2b) If you don't want to build, simply steal portaudio.dll from Anaconda. It's in <Anaconda_root>/Library/bin

Zenshu · Answer 4 · 2019-03-07T01:09:27.320

It's not compatible with 3.7 and as far as I have been able to find thus far there doesn't appear to be any work being put into making it compatible and I haven't found any sort of replacement, so unless you want to build the package yourself and make it compatible with 3.7 then it can't be used without downgrading your python install to 3.6, I did try Hiadore's answer and that does not work either with 3.7.

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited May 25 '19 at 23:23

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Simply Download wheel file from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyaudio , get the file for your Python version and bitness. Change the directory location to the download file location or copy downloaded file to the working location.

Install it with pip install filename.whl

edited May 25 '19 at 23:23

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answered May 25 '19 at 22:57

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 05 '19 at 08:14

Extract to https://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/

In Windows:

Install using pip:

python -m pip install pyaudio

Currently, there are wheels compatible with the official distributions of Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6.

Apparently there is no version of that library for Python 3.7, so I'd try downgrading the Python version.

If you continue to have problems with the error of .exe, in this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/41724634/7290770 they solve it.

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 07 '19 at 06:18

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pyaudio is not supported with python 3.7.

Downgrade your version to python 3.6.8.

then try installing pyaudio using the command: pip install pyaudio

answered Oct 07 '19 at 06:18

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score 1 · Answer 8 · edited Nov 23 '19 at 22:39

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Install python 3.6
Install PyCharm
While in PyCharm click File
Click on settings
Click Project Interpreter
Click on the Gear icon ,You should see Add,Show All Click on Add
Next Click System Interpreter
Click the dropdown if you installed python 3.6 you should see it there
Click it Hit ok and install PyAudio this should fix it..

edited Nov 23 '19 at 22:39

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answered Nov 23 '19 at 20:23

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score 1 · Answer 9 · edited Jun 26 '20 at 04:50

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Use this link to download .whl file according to the python version it supports. For Python -3.7 use PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win32.whl

Go and run this command on the Windows command prompt:

pip install PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl

edited Jun 26 '20 at 04:50

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answered Apr 09 '20 at 17:49

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This answer is correct one +1, wonder why it got downvoted. Thanks! – Divyanshu Kushwaha Jun 23 '20 at 08:31

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