Steps to reproduce

1. Install Python 3.12
2. Install speech_recognition and pyaudio with pip (pip install SpeechRecognition and pip install pyaudio)
3. Create a Python script with this code:

import speech_recognition as sr

mic = sr.Microphone()
print('hello')

4. Launch the script.

Expected behaviour

hello printed in the console

Actual behaviour

Because distutils was removed in Python 3.12, we get ModuleNotFoundError: module named 'distutils'

System information

My Python version is 3.12.