I'm working with PocjketSphinx now, it's totally language independant. There is a paper floating around for Arabic, in which they used several reads of the Qu'r

I'm working with PocjketSphinx now, it's totally language independant. There is a paper floating around for Arabic, in which they used several reads of the Qu'ran as training data. For Chinese there's a model in the official Sphinx page.