(Audio classification pipeline) ValueError: ffmpeg was not found but is required to load audio files from filename

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Greetings Huggingface community!

I have been following the examples in the docs, for the example of audio pipeline under the ‘Pipelines for inference’ tutorial, I tried out the follwing example:

from transformers import pipeline
audio_classifier = pipeline(task='audio-classification',model = \
                            "ehcalabres/wav2vec2-lg-xlsr-en-speech-emotion-recognition")
audio_classifier("1.wav")  # A .wav file stored locally in the same directory

I get the following error

ValueError: ffmpeg was not found but is required to load audio files from filename

I’m running all of this under a conda environment and made sure that ffmpeg was installed.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

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I have the same issue, any update on that?

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For anyone encountering this issue, I found a solution. Apparently python ffmpeg-python package doesn’t install ffmpeg itself so you have to install it manually on your machine Download FFmpeg

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@Avienir Hey, I am facing the same issue in Windows 10. So I downsload the ffmpeg and where should I place the files? Could you please help me?

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You can use choco in windows10，if you have，I use choco install ffmpeg solve the problem.