Pyaudio: no method 'get_device_count'

Question

I'm using the Python Speech Recognition library to recognize speech input from the microphone.

This works fine with my default microphone. This is the code I'm using. According to what I understood of the documentation

Creates a new Microphone instance, which represents a physical microphone on the computer. Subclass of AudioSource.

If device_index is unspecified or None, the default microphone is used as the audio source. Otherwise, device_index should be the index of the device to use for audio input. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SpeechRecognition/

The problem is that when I want to get the node with pyaudio.get_device_count() - 1. I'm getting this error.

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get_device_count'

So I'm not sure how to configure the microphone to use a usb microphone

import pyaudio
import speech_recognition as sr

index = pyaudio.get_device_count() - 1
print index

r = sr.Recognizer()

with sr.Microphone(index) as source: 
    audio = r.listen(source) 

try:
    print("You said " + r.recognize(audio))   
except LookupError:                           
    print("Could not understand audio")

Answer 1

myPyAudio=pyaudio.PyAudio()
print "Seeing pyaudio devices:",myPyAudio.get_device_count()

Answer 2

That's a bug in the library. I just pushed out a fix in 1.3.1, so this should now be fixed!

Version 1.3.1 retains full backwards compatibility with previous versions.