◾State of art speech recognition algorithms for efficient speech recognition. CMUSphinx tools are designed specifically for low-resource platforms ◾ Flexible design ◾ Focus on practical application development and not on research ◾ Support for several languages like US English, UK English, French, Mandarin, German, Dutch, Russian and ability to build a models for others ◾ BSD-like license which allows commercial distribution ◾ Commercial support ◾ Active development and release schedule ◾ Active community (more than 400 users on Linkedin CMUSphinx group) ◾ Wide range of tools for many speech-recognition related purposes (keyword spotting, alignment, pronuncation evaluation)

* Used by VoIP telephony applications (endpoints or conference server). * Usefull for any application that wish to establish sessions like multiplayer games.