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Licences & credits

Speech recognition

The acoustic model behind this service is published under a licence that asks for credit. This is that credit.

Speech recognition by NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, © NVIDIA Corporation, used under CC-BY-4.0, which is offered without warranties. Modified: the published checkpoint has been converted to ONNX for inference, and quantised to int8 where a smaller model is served. The weights are otherwise unchanged; there has been no retraining or fine-tuning.

ModelLicenceCommercial useAsks of us
nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3CC-BY-4.0Permitted, stated explicitlyCredit, a link, and a note of changes
nvidia/parakeet-ctc-0.6bCC-BY-4.0PermittedThe same
openai/whisper-*MITPermittedKeep the copyright notice

Everything else

The service is built on open-source libraries, used unmodified. Their licences ask for notices to travel with copies of the software; this is a hosted service, and what leaves the building is a transcript, never a copy of the program, so no further notice is owed here.

A complete inventory is kept, and customers who need one for their own records are welcome to ask.