python after using speech recognition can´t delete the audio file

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this is my testcode for speech to text, the speec to text works the only problem is to remove the audiofile after

   import os
from os import walk
import speech_recognition as sr


def remove_spaces(string) : # removes all spaces in a string
    return string.replace(" ", "")


def search_name() : # search for any file in path
    _, _, filenames = next(walk('C:\\audios\\')) 
    return filenames[0]


def remove_file(name) : # should look for the file and removes it 
    print(('C:\\audios\\' + name))
    if os.path.isfile(('C:\\\audios\\' + name)) :
        os.remove(('C:\\audios\\' + name))
        print("success, file .waw removed!")
    else :
        print("File doesn't exists!")


def main() :
    r = sr.Recognizer()  
    audio_name = search_name() #get the name of file
    print("Filename of Audio:", audio_name)
    with sr.AudioFile(f'C:\\audios\\{audio_name}') as source :
        audio_text = r.listen(source)
        text = r.recognize_google(audio_text, language='de-DE')
        print('Converting audio transcripts into text ...')
        code = remove_spaces(text)
        print(code)
        remove_file(audio_name)
        return code


if __name__ == '__main__' :
    main()

the error, after using speech to text i would like to delete the 'audio.waw' but it says the file is still in use

    C:\Users\J-Roc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe C:/speech_to_text.py
Filename of Audio: xyz.wav
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\speech_to_text.py", line 43, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\speech_to_text.py", line 38, in main
    remove_file(audio_name)
  File "C:\speech_to_text.py", line 20, in remove_file
    os.remove(('C:\\audios\\' + name))
PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is used by another process: 'C:\\audios\\xyz.wav'
Converting audio transcripts into text ...
5549355
C:\audios\xyz.wav

Process finished with exit code 1
speech-recognition operating-system python
2 Answers

You are removing the file within the file context. You should remove after the context has finished. In your main function:

with sr.AudioFile(f'C:\\audios\\{audio_name}') as source :
        audio_text = r.listen(source)
        text = r.recognize_google(audio_text, language='de-DE')
        print('Converting audio transcripts into text ...')
        code = remove_spaces(text)
        print(code)
        remove_file(audio_name) #Still inside the file context. Can't remove file. 
remove_file(audio_name)
return code

Also use of try-except is highly encouraged.

user_149045730

works for me now thx :)

  def main() :
    r = sr.Recognizer()
    audio_name = search_name()
    print("Filename of Audio:", audio_name)
    with sr.AudioFile(f'C:\\ms_acc_creator_\\audios\\{audio_name}') as source :
        audio_text = r.listen(source)
        text = r.recognize_google(audio_text, language='de-DE')
        print('Converting audio transcripts into text ...')
        code = remove_spaces(text)
        print(code)

    remove_file(audio_name)
    return code


if __name__ == '__main__' :
    main()
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