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+> **Warning**
+> This repository is no longer maintained. Please use the official python bindings for PocketSphinx: [github](https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx), [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/pocketsphinx/).
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 Pocketsphinx is a part of the [CMU Sphinx](http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net) Open Source Toolkit For Speech Recognition.
 
 This package provides a python interface to CMU [Sphinxbase](https://github.com/cmusphinx/sphinxbase) and [Pocketsphinx](https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx) libraries created with [SWIG](http://www.swig.org) and [Setuptools](https://setuptools.readthedocs.io).