SpeechRecogniton module is too slow in python

Question

I was trying to use Speech Recognition for my Deep Learning Chatbot to get the input from the user. Actually my Speech-Recognition function code is this:

def get_audio():
    r = sr.Recognizer()

    with sr.Microphone() as source:
        r.pause_threshold = 1
        r.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source, duration=1)
        audio = r.listen(source)
        said = ""

        try:
            print("Listening...")
            said = r.recognize_google(audio)
            print("You said: " + said)
        except Exception as e:
            print("Exception: " + str(e))

    return said.lower()

Well, there are no errors, and that's the biggest error! No problem with my internet connection as I could stream high-quality video at the same time, and this not even video, it is a string, so what might be the problem? I have to wait for almost 15 mins to get a text.

Well, I have also tried an offline API: the recognize_sphinix() method. You need to build the binary installation file(whl) of pocketsphinix. Oh, I forgot to mention, you also need to build pyaudio in your machine to use speech_recognition. I have done all that stuffs, even the same problem is with this offline API... In the morning recognize.sphinix() recognized 2-3 times what I told, but now, it's not even responding that!

NOTE: I have monitored my pc with task manager with only the speech-recognition function running, and Python was just taking 9MB of RAM, and 0.3% CPU usage. So there is no problem with limited Computing Power.

Can anyone solve this? You will make my day if you solve this headache. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The duration parameter is deprecated now. Ref StackOverflow question .
Instead use phrase_time_limit or timeout .

Here is the block of code using phrase_time_limit :

import speech_recognition as sr
def myCommand():
    r = sr.Recognizer()
    with sr.Microphone() as source:
        audio = r.listen(source, phrase_time_limit = 5)  
    try:
        command = r.recognize_google(audio).lower()
        print("you said: " + command)
        
    except sr.UnknownValueError:
        print("Sorry, Cant understand, Please say again")
        command = myCommand()
    return command

This works perfectly fine.