The python 'aifc' library is removed in python 3.13.0

[aaronmader]

The speech_recognition library is unable to run on python 3.13.0, because of the removal of standard libraries like aifc (and possibly others)

We probably just need to specify a new dependency, possibly https://pypi.org/project/standard-aifc/ ?
Note: I haven't done my due-diligence evaluating this library or its maintainer.

[ftnext]

As written in the metadata, the current SpeechRecognition (3.11.0) supports Python 3.9 through 3.12.
We welcome information of migration where aifc is moving to add support for 3.13 in the future.
standard-aifc might be one of the candidates (verification needed), thanks!

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links

• https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#whatsnew313-pep594
• https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#aifc

[ftnext]

pytest mentions 'audioop' removal as well as 'aifc'.
https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/actions/runs/11643697199/job/32424738545

=============================== warnings summary ===============================
speech_recognition/__init__.py:7
  /home/runner/work/speech_recognition/speech_recognition/speech_recognition/__init__.py:7: DeprecationWarning: 'aifc' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13
    import aifc

speech_recognition/__init__.py:8
  /home/runner/work/speech_recognition/speech_recognition/speech_recognition/__init__.py:8: DeprecationWarning: 'audioop' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13
    import audioop

[ftnext]

Added in setup.py

speech_recognition/setup.py

Lines 73 to 77 in 46bb470

	install_requires=[
	"typing-extensions",
	"standard-aifc; python_version>='3.13'",
	"audioop-lts; python_version>='3.13'",
	],

TODO: Run tests on Python 3.13 (but PyTorch (openai-whisper depends) doesn't support 3.13 yet, so we need to skip some tests)

[ftnext]

% python -V
Python 3.13.0

% python -m pip install standard-aifc setuptools
% python -m pip install --no-build-isolation git+https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition