Voice Recognition with Sphinx2

I was reading about Sphinx4 and how fantastic it is the other day. Sphinx4 is writtin in Java however. Since I'm striving for an Opne Source only PC at home Java, although available though Gentoo, is really not an option. Which leads me to Sphinx2, it's written in C, and it's available from here:

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php