No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pocketsphinx has 181K monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 5.1.1, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of sounddevice. It is used by 13 tracked packages, including llama-core, nonocaptcha and oremi-ohunerin.
GitHub topics include speech-recognition and c.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
79
Adoption
92
Community
55
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
30 days ago
Monthly downloads
181,144
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
181,144
Stars
4,321
Stars per 1k downloads
23.85
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
7,501
Month daily avg
6,038
Momentum
+24.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD License
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
30 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
2.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
23
Monthly downloads
181,144
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
67
Issue Burden
7.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
6.6K
Windows
222
macOS
44
Python Versions
3.10
57.8%
4.0K
3.12
25.2%
1.7K
3.13
9.1%
624
3.11
6.8%
468
3.14
1.0%
69
Top Countries
1.
US
4.9K
US
2.
CN
870
CN
3.
SG
455
SG
4.
HK
140
HK
5.
IN
129
IN
6.
CA
100
CA
7.
BE
61
BE
8.
AU
60
AU
9.
SE
56
SE
10.
PL
49
PL
Dependencies
1
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD License
First Release
February 26, 2015
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
5.1.1
Total Releases
29
Contributors
23
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
cp311
cp313
pp310
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh