Unable to resolve missing google-api-python-client module using speech recognition

Question

I am trying to run speech recognition on tinkerboard with Armbian installed. I am always geting this error

ERROR - Error fetching results from Speech Recognition service missing google-api-python-client module: ensure that google-api-python-client is set up correctly.

Even when I check installed packages in pip by using pip list, I can see that google-api-python-client is installed.

pip list output

cachetools (2.1.0)
certifi (2018.10.15)
chardet (3.0.4)
google-api-python-client (1.7.4)
google-auth (1.5.1)
google-auth-httplib2 (0.0.3)
httplib2 (0.11.3)
idna (2.7)
Mirage (0.9.5.2)
pip (9.0.1)
pyasn1 (0.4.4)
pyasn1-modules (0.2.2)
PyAudio (0.2.11)
pycairo (1.16.2)
requests (2.20.0)
rsa (4.0)
setuptools (40.4.3)
six (1.11.0)
SpeechRecognition (3.8.1)
uritemplate (3.0.0)
urllib3 (1.24)
wheel (0.32.2)

Output on console is

tinkerboard@tinkerboard:~/Documents/smarthome_studyplatform/py_workspace/voice_assistant1.0/speech_recognition$ python assistant2.0.py -u rahul -a GoogleCloudSpeech -l english
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
10/25/2018 10:02:07 PM - __main__ - INFO - Language : english
10/25/2018 10:02:07 PM - __main__ - INFO - API : GoogleCloudSpeech
10/25/2018 10:02:07 PM - __main__ - INFO - User : rahul
10/25/2018 10:02:07 PM - __main__ - INFO - Initiating speech recognition.
10/25/2018 10:02:08 PM - __main__ - INFO - Setting minimum energy threshold to [117.178533524]
10/25/2018 10:02:08 PM - __main__ - INFO - Waiting for user query
10/25/2018 10:02:11 PM - __main__ - INFO - Audio captured, begin speech to text.
10/25/2018 10:02:12 PM - __main__ - ERROR - Error fetching results from Speech Recognition service missing google-api-python-client module: ensure that google-api-python-client is set up correctly.

Please can some one suggest why I get this error and how can I resolve it?

Thanks

Answer 1

I had this error as well, trying to use the SpeechRecognition library and got 'missing google-api-python-client module: ensure that google-api-python-client is set up correctly.'

Replying to add visibility to F10's comment on the question and follow up that their advice did resolve it: ensure that oauth2client is installed.

Use

pip install oauth2client

or

pip3 install oauth2client.

In some environments, you may need sudo pip install oauth2client or sudo pip3 install oauth2client