From 7b993a9bbbcc617dff37889e1d4fce04c54a1544 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gauthier <aider@paulg.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:55:45 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] gracefully handle missing portaudio

---
 aider/commands.py |  9 ++++++---
 aider/voice.py    | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aider/commands.py b/aider/commands.py
index f2b10eb6e..ad56666a8 100644
--- a/aider/commands.py
+++ b/aider/commands.py
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ import git
 import tiktoken
 from prompt_toolkit.completion import Completion
 
-from aider import prompts
-from aider.voice import record_and_transcribe
+from aider import prompts, voice
 
 from .dump import dump  # noqa: F401
 
@@ -437,7 +436,11 @@ class Commands:
 
     def cmd_voice(self, args):
         "Record and transcribe voice input"
-        text = record_and_transcribe()
+        if not voice.is_audio_available():
+            self.io.tool_error("Unable to import `sounddevice`, is portaudio installed?")
+            return
+
+        text = voice.record_and_transcribe()
         self.io.user_input(text, log_only=False)
         return text
 
diff --git a/aider/voice.py b/aider/voice.py
index e4fcc57f4..00a6259a7 100644
--- a/aider/voice.py
+++ b/aider/voice.py
@@ -3,12 +3,21 @@ import queue
 import tempfile
 
 import openai
-import sounddevice as sd
+
+try:
+    import sounddevice as sd
+except OSError:
+    sd = None
+
 import soundfile as sf
 
 from .dump import dump  # noqa: F401
 
 
+def is_audio_available():
+    return sd is not None
+
+
 def record_and_transcribe():
     q = queue.Queue()