How does CMU Sphinx Java library work in Python

[j.crater]

Hello all,
I am wondering, how does the CMU Sphinx part of the Python Speech Recognition works, since it is originally a Java library?
Can Python interpreter also run an instance of Java Virtual Machine?

[snippsat]

Hello all,
I am wondering, how does the CMU Sphinx part of the Python Speech Recognition works, since it is originally a Java library?
Can Python interpreter also run an instance of Java Virtual Machine?

Not trough Python interpreter but Jython,but that is not what happens here.

Info is in license,
and is not all Java the recognizer library is written in C.
link:

SpeechRecognition distributes source code, binaries, and language files from CMU Sphinx. These files are BSD-licensed and redistributable as long as copyright notices are correctly retained. See speech_recognition/pocketsphinx-data/*/LICENSE*.txt and third-party/LICENSE-Sphinx.txt for license details for individual parts. 

[j.crater]

Thanks snippsat for looking into it and explaining the inner workings!

Only now I noticed how crooked the thread title is, I don't know how it happened... It was intended to be:
How does CMU Sphinx Java library work in Python?