Fact · Speech recognition
PocketSphinx, the lightweight recognizer in the CMU Sphinx family, descends from older Carnegie Mellon University systems that were released as free software under a BSD-like license.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“released as free software under a BSD-like license thanks to the efforts of Kevin Lenzo”
PocketSphinx (CMU Sphinx) README, CMU Sphinx project, GitHub (cmusphinx/pocketsphinx), n.d., AUTHORS section of the README.
Open the original- What it measures
- The README's authors section explains where the code came from.
- What it does not show
- The sentence describes the history of the code. The README does not give accuracy figures, so this fact says nothing about how well Sphinx recognizes speech.