Pocketsphinx is available in node with pocketsphinx module https://www.npmjs.com/package/pocketsphinx To install it type npm install -g pocketsphinx then node test.js Requirements include latest pocketsphinx, sphinxbase and swig 3.0 Current module simply wraps pocketsphinx API as described in our swig files, in the future we might add asyncroneous extensions for the pocketsphinx API so recognition would not block event loop.