diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 6dc2753317..65dc47c72d 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1586,3 +1586,6 @@ libpyside.cpython-33m.so.1.2 python3-pyside-1.2.2_1
 libupsclient.so.4 libnetwork-ups-tools-2.7.2_1
 libnutclient.so.0 libnetwork-ups-tools-2.7.2_1
 libopenjpeg.so.1 libopenjpeg-1.5.1_1
+libsphinxad.so.0 sphinxbase-0.8_1
+libsphinxbase.so.1 sphinxbase-0.8_1
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sphinxbase-devel b/srcpkgs/sphinxbase-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..061241d0f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sphinxbase-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+sphinxbase
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sphinxbase/template b/srcpkgs/sphinxbase/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e7557f5075
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sphinxbase/template
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Template file for 'sphinxbase'
+pkgname=sphinxbase
+version=0.8
+revision=1
+short_desc="Speech Recognition Toolkit"
+maintainer="Martin Riese <grauehaare@gmx.de>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net"
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/project/cmusphinx/${pkgname}/${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum="55708944872bab1015b8ae07b379bf463764f469163a8fd114cbb16c5e486ca8"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--enable-fixed --disable-static"
+makedepends="pkg-config python-devel doxygen bison jack-devel pulseaudio-devel libsndfile-devel libsamplerate-devel"
+
+sphinxbase-devel_package() {
+	depends="sphinxbase>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}