Getting "error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required." when installing PyAudio

C:\Users\gabri\OneDrive\Desktop>pip3 install pyaudio
Collecting pyaudio
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ab/42/b4f04721c5c5bfc196ce156b3c768998ef8c0ae3654ed29ea5020c749a6b/PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: pyaudio
    Running setup.py install for pyaudio ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'C:\Users\gabri\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.7_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\gabri\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-r9cgblze\\pyaudio\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\gabri\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-r9cgblze\\pyaudio\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\gabri\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-032v86d_\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=
         cwd: C:\Users\gabri\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-r9cgblze\pyaudio\
    Complete output (9 lines):
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.7
    copying src\pyaudio.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7
    running build_ext
    building '_portaudio' extension
    error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: 'C:\Users\gabri\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.7_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\gabri\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-r9cgblze\\pyaudio\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\gabri\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-r9cgblze\\pyaudio\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\gabri\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-032v86d_\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix= Check the logs for full command output.

My python version: 3.7.4 and pip is upgraded.

I have already tried "python3.7 -m pip install PyAudio", but it still did not work.

I have tried installing it from a .whl too, but when I run the command, the following message appears:

ERROR: PyAudio-0.2.11-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform."

I tried with 32 and 64 bit.

Solution

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.

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
PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl for 64 bit

Then go to your download folder:

cd <your_donwload_path>
pip install PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl