Deepspeech module not found while running on google colab

Question

İ need to install Deepspeech 0.6.1 to my system for an Automatic speech recognition project. So as per my mentor's guidance İ used all these codes

[ !pip install deepspeech==0.6.1 !apt-get install -qq sox import deepspeech

error: ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last) in <cell line: 1>() ----> 1 import deepspeech

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'deepspeech']

on Google Collab but when i run 'import deepspeech' code it says module not found.

İ tried these codes next on guidance of a senior. [ !pip list | grep deepspeech it showed: deepspeech 0.6.1 ]

so deepspeech is present but still 'import deepspeech' not working

i have also tried other deepspeech versions like 0.9.3 version but same problem persists

I'm new to python and Google Collab. Please help!

Answer 1

I tried installing deepspeech on Google Colab myself. This is the output of !pip install deepspeech:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement deepspeech (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for deepspeech

As the version of installed python on Google colab is 3.10, it looks like there is no available wheel of deepspeech for python 3.10. it's mentioned here too:

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/issues/3694

So you have two options:

1. Downgrading Google Colab's python from 3.10 to 3.9 or lower versions https://stackoverflow.com/a/71511943

2. Using newer Speech to Text libraries, for example https://github.com/openai/whisper or https://github.com/coqui-ai/stt