

I tried a number of different approaches, using different blogs as guides, but I got nowhere. I originally followed the instructions on CMU’s website, but I couldn’t seem to get it right. When I installed SPHINX for the first time in September 2015, it was not a fun experience. I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Lenovo Yoga, and it’s time to reinstall SPHINX. Try it out for yourself, and come join our friendly chatroom 💚 Check out the 🐸 Model Zoo for open, pre-trained models in different languages. You can train and deploy state-of-the-art 🐸 Speech-to-Text models in just minutes, not weeks. With 🐸 STT, we’ve removed the headaches and streamlined for production settings. However, you can tell from this blog that I’ve spent years working with speech technologies like CMU-Sphinx, so I understand the headaches.

I’m on the Coqui founding team so I’m admittedly biased. It takes minutes to deploy an off-the-shelf 🐸 STT model, and it’s open source on Github. Before devoting significant time to deploying CMU-Sphinx, take a look at 🐸 Coqui Speech-to-Text.

I’m writing you this note in 2021: the world of speech technology has changed dramatically since CMU-Sphinx.
