distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

[wangzixin1940]

An error occurred while running this command: (Windows)

pip install vosk

It like this:

Collecting cffi>=1.0 (from vosk)
  Using cached cffi-1.16.0.tar.gz (512 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [36 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Users\User-Name\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python313\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
          ~~~~^^
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        File "C:\Users\User-Name\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-wqoy3kpb\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 189, in _msvc14_get_vc_env
          raise distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError("Unable to find vcvarsall.bat")
      distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

To fix this bug:

1. Download and Microsoft C++ Build Tools
2. Open the downloaded EXE file.
3. Press the "Continue" button.
4. Wait for the program to be ready.
5. Press the "Install" button and wait.
   
6. Restart your system.
   
7. Enjoy!
   

[wangzixin1940]

This package is a bit large and requires approximately 6GiB of available disk space.