Hi,
I don’t think that logging has verbosePocketSphinx enabled. If it does, that means that your app has an issue that is blocking before [self.pocketsphinxController startListeningWithLanguageModelAtPath:lmPath dictionaryAtPath:dicPath languageModelIsJSGF:NO];, not during it, since the logging would show it starting but stopping somewhere, but this logging shows nothing that happens after the language model is generated. I recommended showing the relationship between your picker code and the OpenEars code before — without that or the output with verbosePocketsphinx there’s no way to know what is happening since the code above is the code which works in the sample app.