How to install pyaudio on mac using Python 3?

Steps:
I assume you are using a mac osx

1. download homebrew by pasting this code at any terminal point
   /usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”

2. After installing homebrew, install portaudio:
   brew install portaudio

3. Finally install pyaudio using pip
   pip install pyaudio

Note: Ensure you install homebrew if its not already installed

For a mac, I think you have to type this into Terminal:

sudo pip install pyaudio

Also, you might have to install Xcode like said in one of the answers.

Steps: I assume you are using a mac osx

download homebrew by pasting this code at any terminal point /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

After installing homebrew, install portaudio: brew install portaudio

Finally install pyaudio using pip pip install pyaudio

Open the Terminal(located in the utilities folder in Applications) and follow the instructions:

With homebrew:

brew install portaudio
pip install pyaudio

Without homebrew:

cd Downloads
curl http://files.portaudio.com/archives/pa_stable_candidate_v190700_rc2_20210331.tgz
tar -xzf pa_stable_candidate_v190700_rc2_20210331.tgz
cd portaudio

pip3 install pyaudio --global-option="build_ext" --global-option="-I$(pwd)/include" --global-option="-L$(pwd)/lib"

In case of MacOS

brew install portaudio

pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/usr/local/include' --global-option='-L/usr/local/lib' pyaudio

Working with Homebrew failed for me on a Macbook Pro M1.

Instead, I installed portaudio from source http://files.portaudio.com/docs/v19-doxydocs/tutorial_start.html

and used

./configure && make
sudo make install
sudo cp include/pa_mac_os.h /usr/local/include

Obviously, there is a bug in the portaudio package for Mac M1, so I had to add the hack of the copy of the include file.

But then

python3 -m pip install pyaudio

and it worked.

(Im on a M1 MacBook Air) This was the first one working for me

brew install flac
pip uninstall pyaudio 
brew uninstall portaudio
brew update 
brew install portaudio 
python3 -m pip install pyaudio --global-option="build_ext" --global-option="-I/opt/homebrew/include" --global-option="-L/opt/homebrew/lib"
pip install pyaudio

None of that worked for me, try instead:

CFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/include -L/opt/homebrew/lib" python3 -m pip install pyaudio

If you want to install pyaudio in jupyter notebook then follow the below steps. Open the terminal and write the following command:

brew install portaudio
pip install pyaudio

Once the above step is done go to jupyter notebook and execute the below code.

pip install pyaudio

I ran into similar issue on macOs Ventura 13.2.
Listing error and solution below in case someone else runs into it.

Error:

$ pip3 install pyaudio
Collecting pyaudio
  Using cached PyAudio-0.2.13.tar.gz (46 kB)
  ...
  ...
  Building wheel for pyaudio (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Building wheel for pyaudio (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [20 lines of output]
      Error in sitecustomize; set PYTHONVERBOSE for traceback:
      AssertionError:
      running bdist_wheel
      ...
      ...
      src/pyaudio/device_api.c:9:10: fatal error: 'portaudio.h' file not found
      #include "portaudio.h"
               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
      1 error generated.
      error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit code 1
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyaudio
Failed to build pyaudio
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyaudio, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Solution

I just had to do following,

brew install portaudio
pip3 install pyaudio