Python: Portaudio Errno -9986 Internal PortAudio error

Question

I'm trying to run a simple python speech recognition program. The code is as follows:

import speech_recognition as sr
import pyttsx3 


r = sr.Recognizer()  

engine = pyttsx3.init("nsss",True)

engine.say("hello")
engine.runAndWait()


while True:
    try:
        print("starting process")
        with sr.Microphone() as source2:    
            r.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source2, duration=0.2)  
            print("completed adjustment")
            audio2 = r.listen(source2) 
            MyText = r.recognize_google(audio2) 
            MyText = MyText.lower() 
            print("Did you say "+MyText) 
            SpeakText(MyText) 
    
    except sr.RequestError as e:
        print("Could not request results; {0}".format(e))
    except sr.UnknownValueError:
        print("an unknown error occured")

When run, the test to speech says "Hello" successfully but then throws

||PaMacCore (AUHAL)|| Failed to open AUHAL component.||PaMacCore (AUHAL)|| Error on line 1263: err='-50', msg=Unknown Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test1.py", line 16, in <module>
    with sr.Microphone() as source2:    
  File "/Users/markus/Library/Python/3.6/lib/python/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 141, in __enter__
    input=True,  # stream is an input stream
  File "/Users/markus/Library/Python/3.6/lib/python/site-packages/pyaudio.py", line 750, in open
    stream = Stream(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/markus/Library/Python/3.6/lib/python/site-packages/pyaudio.py", line 441, in __init__
    self._stream = pa.open(**arguments)
OSError: [Errno -9986] Internal PortAudio error

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling portaudio with brew.

-- EDIT --

I ran into similar issues with portaudio in musescore, running the program using sudo solved the issue.

Answer 1

`brew uninstall portaudio

brew install portaudio --HEAD`

that eliminate this error on Mac Big sur