Can't install Speech API Python client on Raspberry Pi 3

1. OS type and version - Raspbian Pixel
2. Python version and virtual environment information python --version - 2.7.9

Hi guys,

Trying to install the Speech API Python client on my Raspberry Pi 3 but running into installation issues. When I try

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-speech

it starts the install process, but hangs when it comes to building the grpcio dependency and doesn’t move forward until I cancel. Exact line is:

Running setup.py bdist_wheel for grpcio ...

and that’s where it gets stuck. I did some Googling and it looks like there’s a problem with grpc on ARM processors, so is there any way to get around this and have the Python client installed on my Pi? Would appreciate any help! I understand the library is in Alpha so this issue may not even have a fix, but just wanted to see if there might be.

Thanks, Aazim.

[skumarlabs]

I am facing the same issue while installing firebase-admin. I am trying to install firebase-admin package in my raspberry pi zero w. While I used command sudo pip install firebase-admin, it is stuck on below line, running setup.py bdist_wheel for grpcio ...

@aazimh as you have mentioned it was completed after waiting a long… how much time would it take to complete… any idea?

Appreciate your help.

For anyone else facing the issue, for me, it took ~58 minutes on raspberry pi 3B+ on desktop boot…

[lukesneeringer]

For tracking purposes: @aazimh did open an issue on GRPC: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/10793