diff --git a/app-accessibility/pocketsphinx/Manifest b/app-accessibility/pocketsphinx/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a7efe511dc8b..0000000000000
--- a/app-accessibility/pocketsphinx/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST pocketsphinx-0.8.tar.gz 23781837 BLAKE2B 069f283f1cd80f62b625fe6fc621609b73ae90c2abfe37f36b67a9282fe50a1f877742a824439f9d2bc1d66da047d6460ae77f788e58e7fb93cdf9be610437db SHA512 b53ab8883ddbc2c66c6a6af1bac318f3cdfd5a495cb636f33eb649d42f28780b36c43dfd9a61f213d6a1b83f0fba6b114d44b38d9fa091acf62a8e529118e583
diff --git a/app-accessibility/pocketsphinx/metadata.xml b/app-accessibility/pocketsphinx/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index b41f634a646d0..0000000000000
--- a/app-accessibility/pocketsphinx/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>accessibility@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Gentoo Accessibility Project</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="sourceforge">cmusphinx</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-accessibility/pocketsphinx/pocketsphinx-0.8.ebuild b/app-accessibility/pocketsphinx/pocketsphinx-0.8.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b2f52862a613..0000000000000
--- a/app-accessibility/pocketsphinx/pocketsphinx-0.8.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL=1
-inherit eutils distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Speaker-independent large vocabulary with continuous speech recognizer"
-HOMEPAGE="https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/cmusphinx/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="BSD-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
-IUSE="python static-libs"
-REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
-
-RDEPEND="app-accessibility/sphinxbase
-	media-libs/gstreamer:0.10
-	media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10
-	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-run_distutils() {
-	if use python; then
-		pushd python > /dev/null || die
-		distutils-r1_"${@}"
-		popd > /dev/null || die
-	fi
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf \
-		--without-python \
-		$(use_enable static-libs static)
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	default
-	run_distutils ${FUNCNAME}
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	default
-	run_distutils ${FUNCNAME}
-	prune_libtool_files
-}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 4ccc565cb81a0..cb0a5d1774c79 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -409,12 +409,6 @@ media-gfx/gimmage
 # working for some time (#602938). Removal in a month.
 media-libs/schroedinger
 
-
-# Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> (04 Nov 2018)
-# Needs someone to maintain it and bump to a snapshot not relying on
-# gstreamer:0.10 (#610434, #560254). Removal in a month.
-app-accessibility/pocketsphinx
-
 # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (03 Nov 2018)
 # Breaks revdeps (GDir and GDirEntry split from gfile.h into new gdir.h)
 # See tracker: https://bugs.gentoo.org/670222