How do i fix UnboundLocalError: local variable 'command' referenced before assignment

Question

I'm trying to make a virtual assistant and the only problem left is this one. I tried google and reddit but I dint get any answers. I don't know how to fix it but here is the code:

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import speech_recognition as sr
import pyttsx3
import pywhatkit
import datetime
import wikipedia
import pyjokes

listener = sr.Recognizer()
engine = pyttsx3.init()
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[1].id)# 0 is male, 1 is female
engine.say('Booting Lora system')
engine.runAndWait()

def talk(text):
    engine.say(text)
    engine.runAndWait()

def take_command():
    try:
        with sr.Microphone() as source:
            voice = listener.listen(source)
            command = listener.recognize_google(voice)
            command = command.lower()
    except:
        pass
    return command


def run_lora():
    command = take_command()
    if 'play' in command:
        song = command.replace('play', '')
        talk('playing ' + song)
        pywhatkit.playonyt(song)
    elif 'time' in command:
        time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M')
        talk('Current time is ' + time)
    elif 'who' in command:
        question = command
        info = wikipedia.summary(question, 3)
        talk(info)
    elif 'tell' in command and 'joke' in command:
        talk(pyjokes.get_joke())
    else:
        talk('Sorry I did not understand')

while True:
    run_lora()

Answer 1

Because you defined command in run_lora it is a private variable you just need to add global command .

def take_command():

    global command    # <---- Over Here #############

    try:
        with sr.Microphone() as source:
            voice = listener.listen(source)
            command = listener.recognize_google(voice)
            command = command.lower()
    except:
        pass
    return command

Answer 2

Change the word command to cmnd in take_command() function. Your command variable is referenced before it was actually declared

def take_command():
    try:
        with sr.Microphone() as source:
            voice = listener.listen(source)
            cmnd = listener.recognize_google(voice)
            cmnd = cmnd.lower()
    except:
        pass
    return cmnd

Answer 3

I think my problem was that I needed pyadio but the pyaudio version is way to old for python 3.8