About CMUSphinx

CMUSphinx collects over 20 years of the CMU research. All advantages are hard to list, but just to name a few:

• State of art speech recognition algorithms for efficient speech recognition. CMUSphinx tools are designed specifically for low-resource platforms
• Flexible design
• Focus on practical application development and not on research
• Support for several languages like US English, UK English, French, Mandarin, German, Dutch, Russian and ability to build a models for others
• BSD-like license which allows commercial distribution
• Commercial support
• Active development and release schedule
• Active community (more than 400 users on Linkedin CMUSphinx group)
• Wide range of tools for many speech-recognition related purposes (keyword spotting, alignment, pronuncation evaluation)