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

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

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