how to stop listen_in_background

[marchtom]

Once I start listen_in_background I can't stop it. Is there any way to turn it off?

Thank you,
marchtom

[Uberi]

Hi @marchtom,

This feature has been added in version 2.0, which I just release. Please update your library and check out the "Listening to a microphone in the background" example in the README!

Basically, now when you call listen_in_background, it will return a function. Call that function to stop the listener thread.

[marchtom]

@Uberi thank you for fast response.

Unfortunately after update I get this error as soon as I start listen_in_background

Exception in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "E:\Users\Tomek\Anaconda32\lib\threading.py", line 810, in *bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "E:\Users\Tomek\Anaconda32\lib\threading.py", line 763, in run
self.__target(_self.__args, _self.__kwargs)
File "E:\Users\Tomek\Anaconda32\lib\site-packages\speech_recognition__init.py", line 373, in threaded_listen
except TimeoutError:
NameError: global name 'TimeoutError' is not defined

[Uberi]

This has been fixed in version 2.0.1 - we should really test on Python 2 more often!