Running any function for a specific amount of time? [duplicate]

What I want to do

I am trying to listen to a person for 5 seconds and then respond back according to what the user says. I want to accomplish this using the PyPi speech_recognition library.

What I have Tried

I have tried combining a python timer with the text-to-speech function. This is my code:

#imported libraries needed
import speech_recognition
import time
#and a few more libraries to run "do something comment outs seen bellow"

r = speech_recognition.Recognizer()
#declared few more variables for other code

while True:
    for variable in Variable:
        #do something
        if statement:
            #do something. I am only adding the loops and statements to tell you about the loops I am using and you can help me accordingly
            if statement:
                #do something
                with speech_recognition.Microphone() as source:
                    audio_text = r.listen(source)
                    text = r.recognize_google(audio_text)
                    if 'yes' in text:
                        while True:
                            for x in range(5):
                                #Says things using pyttsx3 library
 
                                #important code starts
                                t = 5
                                int(t)
                                for x in range(5):
                                    mins = t // 60
                                    secs = t % 60
                                    timer = '{:02d}:{:02d}'.format(mins, secs)
                                    # overwrite previous line
                                    print(timer, end="\r")
                                    time.sleep(1)
                                    t -= 1
                                    audio_text = r.listen(source)
                                    text = r.recognize_google(audio_text)
                                    print(text)
                                    if 'yes' in text:
                                        print("Right answer")
                                        break
                                    else:
                                        print("Wrong answer")
 
                            if not 'yes' in text:
                                break

This code does not work because when you execute it starts normally, printing 0:05 in the terminal but it listens for a long time and only till I say something(‘yes’ or ‘no’ or something else) then it repeats and prints out 0:04 but I want the timer to continually run while listening to the user and if the person doesn’t respond within five seconds then I want to print something out in the console.

Question

Using Speech_Recognition library text-to-speech function(r.recognize_google(audio_text)) for a specific amount of time?

Bonus: Running any function for a specific amount of time?

source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71003478/running-any-function-for-a-specific-amount-of-time