As of today, CMUSphinx project is proud to present you the Spanish acoustic model. It was trained on the acoustic data to support both wideband recognition of microphone speech recordings and narrowband recognition of the telephone speech. Now you can build Spanish IVR using CMUSphinx tools.

You can find the model HERE.

Please try and report the accuracy results.

Also, note that there are models for many languages like German, Dutch, French or Russian. In the future we are going to expand the set of languages for your convenience.

If you are using HTK still and has headaches with it, you have last chance to move to CMUSphinx! You can even take your models with you!

The htk2s3conv package which converts HTK model to SphinxTrain format has been landed in our VCS recently, check it out at

https://cmusphinx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cmusphinx/trunk/htk2s3conv

Don't forget to read the documentation!

Recently we wrote about one interesting project where sphinx4 was used in contemporary art installation. That's really enouraging that being very easy for art designer sphinx4 allows to create new virtual reality. Please consider another interesting one:

Chatter from Mia Sorensen on Vimeo.

If you got interested, code and description is here.

Pocketsphinx is going to win on mobile platforms. Right now there is no alternative to using it because of performance, accuracy and flexibility. Using pretrained US English acoustic models one can get amazing results.

That was proved once again by amazing Nightingale Browser Project. Check this video how it works

If you like it, feel free to contribute to the project. Checkout source from Gitorious http://gitorious.org/nightingale, clone, send patches, report bugs!

And, to not make you confused. Pocketsphinx is not only for mobile. You can perfectly use it in desktop applications, even in large scalable application. It's accuracy is the best we can suggest you right now!