Wondering if anyone has any experience with this cross-platform speech recognition library Sphinx from Carnegie Mellon.
I am looking to try adding speech commands in my game and it needs to be cross-platform, so the Windows speech SDK (which has third-party Python wrappers) is not going to cut it.
i did work with sphinx2 i think. long ago. was quite a rough experience back then, setting up, training,…
found simon to be a lot easier to set up and work with.
sourceforge.net/projects/speech2text/
worked pretty well for me. altho i cant stand listening to my own voice, you can find an example here.
youtube.com/watch?v=2UQ7G5mU-V0
used regular keyboard bindings instead of direct python integration.
as you can see, it does a pretty good job even without extensive training (i went with the defaults)
Anyone out there interested in integrating Sphinx with Panda3D if there was a financial bounty for doing so? This might make a nice CMU student project. 
Ideally it would be fully integrated (accessible with Python), able to run in a thread, and be able to send the recognized words using Panda’s messenger/accept system.
Of course the whole community would also benefit.