BrievaThird-Party Notices
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AI models
Models are downloaded once, at first run, directly from huggingface.co and sherpa-onnx release assets on GitHub - pinned to exact revisions and checksums - and are governed by their own licenses:
| Model | Developer | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 4B (GGUF) | Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud | Apache-2.0 | Local language model for summaries and briefs (default) |
| Qwen3 8B (GGUF) | Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud | Apache-2.0 | Local language model, medium tier |
| Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (GGUF) | Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud (GGUF by Unsloth) | Apache-2.0 | Local language model, large tier |
| Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 | NVIDIA (MLX conversion by mlx-community) | CC BY 4.0 | On-device speech-to-text |
| pyannote segmentation-3.0 (ONNX) | Herve Bredin (pyannote) | MIT | Speaker segmentation for diarization |
| 3D-Speaker ERes2Net (ONNX) | 3D-Speaker team, Alibaba (speech lab) | Apache-2.0 | Speaker embeddings for diarization |
Speech-to-text is powered by Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, created by NVIDIA and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Brieva uses the mlx-community conversion of the model to Apple's MLX format; the model weights are otherwise unmodified.
Bundled software
| Component | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| llama.cpp | MIT | Local LLM inference (summaries, briefs); includes ggml |
| MLX | MIT | Apple Silicon ML framework |
| parakeet-mlx | Apache-2.0 | Parakeet inference on MLX |
| CPython / python-build-standalone | PSF-2.0 | Bundled Python runtime for transcription |
| Node.js | MIT-style | Bundled runtime for the local service layer |
| sherpa-onnx | Apache-2.0 | Speaker diarization engine |
| ONNX Runtime | MIT | Neural-net inference for diarization |
| libsndfile | LGPL-2.1-or-later | Audio file reading (dynamically linked) |
| soxr | LGPL-2.1-or-later | Audio resampling (dynamically linked) |
| Tauri | MIT / Apache-2.0 | Application shell |
License claims on this page were last verified against each source on August 8, 2026. Questions about licensing: support@brieva.app.