Microphone Package/Library Isn't Supported on Windows

[hasanshahid5678]

What is the current behavior?

I am trying to run the live streaming examples for async_http and async_microphone. It only prints 'Could not open socket:' and exits. I have also run synchronous code and it is running as expected.

Steps to reproduce

run python examples/streaming/async_http/main.py

Expected behavior

Could not open socket:

Please tell us about your environment

Windows 11, Python 3.11.5

Other information

[davidvonthenen]

Hi @hasanshahid5678

Unfortunately, the Microphone package is not supported on Windows:
https://github.com/deepgram/deepgram-python-sdk/tree/main/examples/streaming/microphone

It's on the list to look at and I believe it's mostly a configuration issue. Just need to dedicate time to it.

[hasanshahid5678]

And I was only able to run aync_http using wsl terminal.

[davidvonthenen]

Yes, all of the async examples include code specific to *nix operating systems to demonstrate exiting the application gracefully from a signal termination.If you remove that part of the example, they should run in windows.

All of the threaded examples don't require that OS dependent termination. If you can run the threaded clients, they can be using in async classes/functions/code and they also are also better for IO-performant applications like websocket.

[hasanshahid5678]

If I want to send a message through web sockets to the web, can I still use threaded example. If yes, please tell me how because await websocket.send() can only be used under async functions

[davidvonthenen]

You can use both. If you want to use the async example, just remove the *nix specific signal handling.