Basic usage of PocketSphinx via Python

basic_usage.py

from __future__ import print_function
from os import path

from sphinxbase import sphinxbase  # noqa
from pocketsphinx import pocketsphinx

MODELDIR = "pocketsphinx/model"
DATADIR = "pocketsphinx/test/data"

# Create a decoder with certain model
config = pocketsphinx.Decoder.default_config()
config.set_string('-hmm', path.join(MODELDIR, 'en-us/en-us'))
config.set_string('-lm', path.join(MODELDIR, 'en-us/en-us.lm.bin'))
config.set_string('-dict', path.join(MODELDIR, 'en-us/cmudict-en-us.dict'))

# Decode streaming data.
decoder = Decoder(config)
decoder.start_utt()
stream = open(path.join(DATADIR, 'goforward.raw'), 'rb')
while True:
    buf = stream.read(1024)
    if not buf:
        break
    decoder.process_raw(buf, False, False)
decoder.end_utt()
print('Best hypothesis segments: ', [seg.word for seg in decoder.seg()])