Licenses
VODscribe is built on, and downloads, the work of these projects. Thank you to everyone behind them.
Downloaded by the app
- Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 speech model by NVIDIA, licensed CC BY 4.0. VODscribe distributes it converted to ONNX and quantized (int8 for processors, fp16 for GPUs). Original: huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3.
- yt-dlp, github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp, released into the public domain (Unlicense).
- FFmpeg, ffmpeg.org, licensed GPL v3. The app downloads builds from BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds (Windows, Linux) and ffmpeg.martin-riedl.de (macOS), which publish their source.
- Deno, github.com/denoland/deno, MIT license.
- GPU add-on: ONNX Runtime (MIT) as packaged by sherpa-onnx, and NVIDIA's CUDA, cuBLAS, cuRAND and cuDNN libraries from PyPI, under the NVIDIA software license.
Built into the app
- sherpa-onnx (Apache 2.0) and ONNX Runtime (MIT), which run the speech model.
- Tauri (MIT or Apache 2.0) and Svelte (MIT), the app's window and interface.
- SQLite (public domain), which stores and searches transcripts.
- hls.js (Apache 2.0), which plays Kick VODs.
- GStreamer and its plugins (LGPL), including FFmpeg's decoders (LGPL), which the Linux AppImage carries to play video.
- Icons from Lucide (ISC).
- And many Rust crates and npm packages, each under its own open-source license.
Demo VODs
- “NASA's Artemis II News Conference with Moon Astronauts” by NASA, a work of the US government in the public domain.
- “Standard Output” by TwitchDev, shown through Twitch's own player.