We are pleased to announce the long-awaited PocketSphinx 0.6 release, including SphinxBase 0.6.  This release corresponds to SVN revision 9898.

PocketSphinx is a small-footprint continuous speech recognition system, freely licensed under a simplified BSD license, suitable for handheld and desktop applications.  It features:

• Cross-platform: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, iPhoneOS
• Experimental support for Nokia S60v3 and Windows Mobile
• Support for semi-continuous, phonetically-tied, and fully continuous acoustic models
• Model footprint on disk of about 10MB per language
• Memory footprint under 20MB for medium-vocabulary continuous recognition
• Trigram language models and JSGF finite-state grammars
• Acoustic models for English and Mandarin
• Small language models for English and Mandarin (simplified and traditional characters)
• Python language bindings
• GStreamer multimedia framework integration

The release branch can be accessed via Subversion at http://cmusphinx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cmusphinx/branches/pocketsphinx-0.6 - this is the preferred way to access the release, particularly if you are using Windows.

This exact release tag can be accessed at http://cmusphinx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cmusphinx/tags/pocketsphinx-0.6

Source code archives are now available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/

Debian/Ubuntu source packages are available from https://launchpad.net/~dhuggins/+archive/cmusphinx

Congratulations with the new release.

Get it here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/sphinx4/1.0%20beta4/

New Features and Improvements:

• Large arbitrary-order language models
• Simplified and reworked model loading code
• Raw configuration and and demos
• HTK model loader
• Many code optimizations
• JSAPI-independent JSGF parser
• Noise filtering components
• Lattice rescoring
• Server-based language model

Bug fixes:

• Lots of bug fixes: PLP extraction, race-conditions in scoring, etc.

Thanks:

Peter Wolf, Yaniv Kunda, Antoine Raux, Dirk Schnelle-Walka, Yannick Estève, Anthony Rousseau and LIUM team, Christophe Cerisara

Official CMU Sphinx wiki is now located on sourceforge

https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki

The information will be slowly tranferred there from other sources.

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