Post 11: Useful details about CMU's Sphinx' Speech Recognition Software.

(Please be advised that this post is incomplete.)

I am new to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and I my mind is already inundated with keywords like dictionaries, language, acoustic and models.
This post provides links to information that you might find useful.

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7025497/use-cmus-sphinx4-to-transcribe-non-digits-data

2. http://www.bakuzen.com/?p=12  --> A relatively old post. Says that Sphinx4 cannot do phoneme-level alignment. Maybe it can now, but I can't find any posts suggesting that.

3. http://sourceforge.net/p/cmusphinx/discussion/sphinx4/thread/6aac4eb2/ --> idea of phoneme recognition is frowned upon

4. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12048163/cmu-sphinx4-phoneme-dictation --> CMU Sphinx4 phoneme dictation

5. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12153267/how-to-convert-simple-word-to-sphinx4-wsj-like-dictionary-prounounciation --> adding words to WSJ dictionary.