In my experiences, the issues with building CMU Sphinx are mainly unspecified dependencies, undocumented version requirements, and forgetting to sacrifice the g

In my experiences, the issues with building CMU Sphinx are mainly unspecified dependencies, undocumented version requirements, and forgetting to sacrifice the goat when the MSVC redistributable installer pops up. We've written detailed, up-to-date instructions [1] for installing CMU Sphinx, and now also provide prebuilt binaries [2]! If you're interested in not sending your audio to Google, CMU Sphinx and other libraries (like Kaldi and Julius), are definitely worth a second look. [1] https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/blob/master/reference/pocketsphinx.rst https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/blob/master/refe... [2] https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/tree/master/third-party https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/tree/master/thir...