I am making a speech recognition program in python where I want that when I say “above”, it will continuously run the loop to press the down key until I again don’t say above, but now after I included threading to make the speech recognizer run continuously, the whole main loop is not recognizing the res

from speech import *
import queue
import threading
import pyautogui
import keyboard
import time
import sys

def speech_func(res_queue):
    while True:
        res = speech()
        res_queue.put(res)

res_queue = queue.Queue()
prc=threading.Thread(target=speech_func, args=(res_queue,))
prc.start()

flower_active=False

while True:
    res = res_queue.get()
    
    if "above" in res:
        flower_active = not flower_active

    while flower_active:
        keyboard.press_and_release('down')
        time.sleep(0.1)

    if "after" in res:
        pyautogui.moveTo(1010,130)
        pyautogui.click()

    if "before" in res:
        pyautogui.moveTo(890,130)
        pyautogui.click()

    if "music" in res:
        pyautogui.moveTo(1680,130)
        pyautogui.click()
                         
    if "below" in res:
        keyboard.press_and_release('pageup')

    if "ending" in res:
        prc.join()
        sys.exit(0)

If I remove the threading everything works fine except the down arrow which when i say “above” will start running the loop but won’t stop even if I say “above” again