Executive Summary: This is a release candidate and the API is not yet stable so please don’t package it.
PocketSphinx now has a release candidate. You can also download it from PyPI.
Why release candidate 2? Because there was a release candidate 1, but it had various problems regarding installation, so I made another one. This one is relatively complete, but the documentation isn’t good, and it hasn’t been fully tested on Windows or Mac OS X. If you are courageous, you can try that. Installation should be a matter of:
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --build build --target install
The most important change versus 5prealpha is, as mentioned
previously, the disappearance of pocketsphinx_continuous and the
“live” API in general, which has been replaced with
<pocketsphinx/endpointer.h>.
The API is quite simple but it requires you to feed it data in precise
quantities. The best way to do this is to ensure that you can read
data from a file stream, as shown in the examples
live.c
and
live.py.
For command-line usage there is a very Unixy program called
pocketsphinx now, which nonetheless doesn’t have a man page yet
(Update: it has a man page). Use it like this:
# From microphone
sox -d $(pocketsphinx soxflags) | pocketsphinx
# From file
sox audio.wav $(pocketsphinx soxflags) | pocketsphinx
There are no innovations with respect to modeling, algorithms, etc, and there will never be. But I am trying to make this into a decent piece of software nonetheless. All documentation, bug reports (that are actually bug reports and not just ‘how do i run the program’) and such are welcome via https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx.