I can't install pyaudio on Windows? How to solve "error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required."?

Solution 1:

The answer by Agalin is already great and I just want to explain it in a step by step format for a novice like myself:

• find your Python version by python --version mine is 3.7.3 for example
• the easiest way to check either you have 64 or 32 Python just open it in the terminal:

• find the appropriate .whl file from here, for example mine is PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl, and download it.
• go to the folder where it is downloaded for example cd C:\Users\foobar\Downloads
• install the .whl file with pip for example in my case:

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

Solution 2:

First run your IDE or CMD as Administrator and run the following:

pip install pipwin
pipwin install pyaudio

Solution 3:

There is no wheel (prebuilt package) for Python 3.7 on Windows (there is one for Python 2.7 and 3.4 up to 3.6) so you need to prepare build environment on your PC to use this package. Easier would be finding the wheel for 3.7 as some packages are quite hard to build on Windows.

Christoph Gohlke (University of California) hosts Windows wheels for most popular packages for nearly all modern Python versions, including latest PyAudio. You can find it here: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ (download can be quite slow). After download, just type pip install <downloaded file here>.

There is no difference between python -m pip install, and pip install as long as you're using default installation settings and single python installation. python pip actually tries to run file pip in the current directory.

Edit. See the pipwin comment for automated way of using Mr Gohlke's libs . Note that I've not used it myself and I'm not sure about selecting different package flavors like vanilla and mkl versions of numpy.