OpenEars is an open source iOS library for implementing English language
speech recognition on the iPhone and iPad. It uses CMU Pocketsphinx, CMU Flite, and
MITLM (MIT Language Modeling) libraries, but in the specs of this research, the author
is only interested in the CMU Pocketsphinx discussed in section 4.3.3. OpenEars has
many interesting capabilities including the ability to
Listen continuously for speech on a background thread, while suspending or resuming speech processing on demand,