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import codecs
import pyttsx3
import speech_recognition as sr
import datetime
import wikipedia
engine=pyttsx3.init('sapi5')
voices=engine.getProperty('voices')
engine.setProperty('voices',voices[0].id)
def speak(audio):
    engine.say(audio)
    engine.runAndWait()
def wishme():
    hour=int(datetime.datetime.now().hour)
    if hour>0 and hour<=12:
        speak("Good Morning")
    elif hour>12 and hour<=16:
        speak("Good Afternoon")
    elif hour>=16 and hour<20:
        speak("Good Evening")
    else:
        speak("Good Night")
    speak("I am Jaarvis. Please tell me How may I help You")
def takecommand():
    r=sr.Recognizer()
    with sr.Microphone() as source:
        print("Listening")
        r.pause_threshold=1
        r.energy_threshold=300
        audio=r.listen(source)
    try:
        print("Recognizing....")
        query=r.recognize_google(audio,language='en-US')
        print('user said:',query,'\n')
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        print("Say that again Please.......")
        return "None"
    return query
if __name__ == '__main__':
    wishme()
    while True:
        query=takecommand().upper()

Error:
'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:/Data Files/A/artificial Inteligence/AI/AI2.py", line 36, in <module>
    query=takecommand().upper()
  File "E:/Data Files/A/artificial Inteligence/AI/AI2.py", line 31, in takecommand
    query=r.recognize_google(audio,language='en-US')
  File "C:\Users\lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\speech_recognition\__init__.py", line 845, in recognize_google
    response_text = response.read().decode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte