1. Install requirements.txt 2. set up ffmpeg or libav for playing audio Mac (using homebrew): brew install ffmpeg --with-libvorbis --with-sdl2 --with-theora Linux (using aptitude): apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra Windows: Download and extract libav from Windows binaries provided here. http://builds.libav.org/windows/ Add the libav /bin folder to your PATH envvar pip install pydub