Python Speech Recognition Very Slow

I am currently developing a smart assistant program (basically it is just listening to what the user says and based on that does something with the code). It was working fine up un

Solution 1:

I found that the problem was in the laptop's microphone. The speech recognition worked fine after I plugged in my Blue Snowball. I forced the program to use the Blue Snowball by going into pavucontrol and selecting the Blue Snowball under the recording tab.

Solution 2:

Another reason could be that your mic levels are either too high or too low, in both the cases the speech_recognition would get either too less audio or too much audio to work with. Take a look at that in your system settings. It helped me, hope it helps you.