python interpreter won't import packages

[greenpy]

I am writing a program for a virtual voice assistant ( macOS Mojave v.10.14.6). to do that, I installed the speechrecognition package using pip version 20.2.3. and it installed fine. when I type python in the terminal to open python interpreter, and then type import speechrecognition, it gives me this back:

>>> import speechrecognition
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named speechrecognition

the terminal opens the interpreter in python 2.7.16, but i have python 3.8.5 downloaded. I thought that might be the problem, old python version can't import the updated pip version install of speechrecognition, but if this is the issue how can i fix it?

[buran]

use the python version where you installed the speachrecognition package. I guess it's python3.8 , so try with python3 instead of python

note that this will run python in interactive mode (>>> is the interactive shell). You would like to write code and save it in .py file, and then run it. if you use write in interactive mode, the code you write is not saved