Remove api_key parameter for OpenAI client

.github/workflows/unittests.yml

@@ -44,16 +44,16 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Python dependencies (Ubuntu, <=3.12)
         if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' && matrix.python-version != '3.13'
         run: |
-          python -m pip install .[dev,audio,pocketsphinx,whisper-local,whisper-api,groq]
+          python -m pip install .[dev,audio,pocketsphinx,whisper-local,openai,groq]
       - name: Install Python dependencies (Ubuntu, 3.13)
         if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' && matrix.python-version == '3.13'
         run: |
           python -m pip install standard-aifc setuptools
-          python -m pip install --no-build-isolation .[dev,audio,pocketsphinx,whisper-api,groq]
+          python -m pip install --no-build-isolation .[dev,audio,pocketsphinx,openai,groq]
       - name: Install Python dependencies (Windows)
         if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
         run: |
-          python -m pip install .[dev,whisper-local,whisper-api,groq]
+          python -m pip install .[dev,whisper-local,openai,groq]
       - name: Test with unittest
         run: |
           pytest --doctest-modules -v speech_recognition/recognizers/ tests/

README.rst

@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ OpenAI Whisper API (for OpenAI Whisper API users)
 
 The library `openai <https://pypi.org/project/openai/>`__ is **required if and only if you want to use OpenAI Whisper API** (``recognizer_instance.recognize_openai``).
 
-If not installed, everything in the library will still work, except calling ``recognizer_instance.recognize_openai`` will raise an ``RequestError``.
+You can install it with ``python3 -m pip install SpeechRecognition[openai]``.
 
-You can install it with ``python3 -m pip install SpeechRecognition[whisper-api]``.
+Please set the environment variable ``OPENAI_API_KEY`` before calling ``recognizer_instance.recognize_openai``.
 
 Groq Whisper API (for Groq Whisper API users)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ The library `groq <https://pypi.org/project/groq/>`__ is **required if and only
 
 You can install it with ``python3 -m pip install SpeechRecognition[groq]``.
 
-Please set the environment variable ``GROQ_API_KEY`` before calling ``recognizer_instance.recognize_groq``
+Please set the environment variable ``GROQ_API_KEY`` before calling ``recognizer_instance.recognize_groq``.
 
 Troubleshooting
 ---------------

examples/microphone_recognition.py

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 # NOTE: this example requires PyAudio because it uses the Microphone class
 
+import os
+
 import speech_recognition as sr
 
 # obtain audio from the microphone
@@ -95,7 +97,8 @@
 
 # recognize speech using Whisper API
 OPENAI_API_KEY = "INSERT OPENAI API KEY HERE"
+os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = OPENAI_API_KEY
 try:
-    print(f"Whisper API thinks you said {r.recognize_openai(audio, api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY)}")
+    print(f"OpenAI Whisper API thinks you said {r.recognize_openai(audio)}")
 except sr.RequestError as e:
-    print(f"Could not request results from Whisper API; {e}")
+    print(f"Could not request results from OpenAI Whisper API; {e}")

reference/library-reference.rst

@@ -314,16 +314,10 @@ You can translate the result to english with Whisper by passing translate=True
 
 Other values are passed directly to whisper. See https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/transcribe.py for all options
 
-``recognizer_instance.recognize_openai(audio_data: AudioData, model: str = "whisper-1", api_key: str | None = None)``
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Performs speech recognition on ``audio_data`` (an ``AudioData`` instance), using the OpenAI Whisper API.
-
-This function requires an OpenAI account; visit https://platform.openai.com/signup, then generate API Key in `User settings <https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys>`__.
-
-Detail: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text
+``recognizer_instance.recognize_openai(audio_data: AudioData, model = "whisper-1", **kwargs)``
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Raises a ``speech_recognition.exceptions.SetupError`` exception if there are any issues with the openai installation, or the environment variable is missing.
+.. autofunction:: speech_recognition.recognizers.openai.recognize
 
 ``recognizer_instance.recognize_groq(audio_data: AudioData, model = "whisper-large-v3-turbo", **kwargs)``
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

setup.cfg

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pocketsphinx =
 whisper-local =
     openai-whisper
     soundfile
-whisper-api =
+openai =
     openai
     httpx < 0.28
 groq =

speech_recognition/recognizers/openai.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import os
 from typing import Literal
 
 from typing_extensions import Unpack
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ def recognize(
     audio_data: "AudioData",
     *,
     model: WhisperModel = "whisper-1",
-    api_key: str | None = None,
     **kwargs: Unpack[OpenAIOptionalParameters],
 ) -> str:
     """
@@ -44,17 +42,14 @@ def recognize(
 
     Detail: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text
 
-    Raises a ``speech_recognition.exceptions.SetupError`` exception if there are any issues with the openai installation, or the environment variable is missing.
+    Set environment variable ``OPENAI_API_KEY``; otherwise openai library will raise a ``openai.OpenAIError``.
     """
-    if api_key is None and os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY") is None:
-        raise SetupError("Set environment variable ``OPENAI_API_KEY``")
-
     try:
         import openai
     except ImportError:
         raise SetupError(
             "missing openai module: ensure that openai is set up correctly."
         )
 
-    recognizer = OpenAICompatibleRecognizer(openai.OpenAI(api_key=api_key))
+    recognizer = OpenAICompatibleRecognizer(openai.OpenAI())
     return recognizer.recognize(audio_data, model, **kwargs)