I figured it out. I had to look through the code. I added the stt_passive_engine setting to the config file. I could see in the code that if this stt_passive_engine setting isn't in place it just uses the stt_engine setting which in my case is
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carrier: ''
first_name: John
gmail_password: ''
last_name: Doe
phone_number: ''
prefers_email: true
timezone: America/New_York
location: New York
latitude: 40.099762244898
longitude: -74.0442383265306
darkSkyKey: 17be4b36614e8944907c17927695a095
locationIQKey: beb9b500f8a8f1
stt_passive_engine: sphinx
pocketsphinx:
hmm_dir: '/usr/share/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/en-us'
fst_model: '/home/pi/phonetisaurus/g014b2b.fst'
stt_engine: witai-stt
#stt_engine: witai
witai-stt:
access_token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
tts_engine: pico-tts