Flac and Machine issue using Mac m1

[youssouf0123]

Steps to reproduce

I am using 2021 macbook pro m1 I follow the normal step on pypi.org using pycharm IDE just like: brew install pyaudio brew install portaudio sudo pip install pyaudio (replace pip with pip3 if using Python 3). pip install speechrecognition brew install flac

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It woks fine if I use it on command Line like this:

python -m speech_recognition

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import speech_recognition as sr

try: print("A moment of silence, please...") while True: print("Say something!") with m as source: audio = r.listen(source) print("Got it! Now to recognize it...") try: # recognize speech using Google Speech Recognition value = r.recognize_google(audio)

        print("You said {}".format(value))
    except sr.UnknownValueError:
        print("Oops! Didn't catch that")
    except sr.RequestError as e:
        print("Uh oh! Couldn't request results from Google Speech Recognition service; {0}".format(e))

except KeyboardInterrupt: pass

I got an OSError about FLAC:

raise OSError("FLAC conversion utility not available - consider installing the FLAC command line application by running apt-get install flac or your operating system's equivalent") OSError: FLAC conversion utility not available - consider installing the FLAC command line application by running apt-get install flac or your operating system's equivalent

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So I took a look on init.py file It turn out that my machine is not on this list elif system == "Darwin" and machine in {"i686", "i786", "x86", "x86_64", "AMD64"}:

It also seems like "flac-mac" binary file is not on directory "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/speech_recognition/"

so, therefore this path won't be found "flac_converter = os.path.join(base_path, "flac-mac")" on init.py file.

------------------------------------------>-----------------<------------------------------------------------- ========> Time to Fix it <========> Heyyyy, Let Fix it. <================================== So, using command line type : which flac This will give you the path to flac, in my case I got "/opt/homebrew/bin/flac" So, let copy that with the name "flac-mac" like this:

"cp /opt/homebrew/bin/flac /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/speech_recognition/flac-mac"

So, the last step is to add your machine (for mac m1, it is 'arm64') on list just like this:

elif system == "Darwin" and machine in {"i686", "i786", "x86", "x86_64", "AMD64", "arm64"}:

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If you want to know your machine and your system, run this code:

import platform system, machine = platform.system(), platform.machine() print(system) print(machine)

[whateverfast]

Please add "arm64" to the audio.py file. It is fixed right away.

 elif system == "Darwin" and machine in {
            "i686",
            "i786",
            "x86",
            "x86_64",
            "AMD64",
            "arm64"
        }:

[ftnext]

@youssouf0123 @whateverfast Thank you for reporting and sharing how to fix. Merged into master