Acknowledgements
Last updated: 27 September 2026
Nota is built on open-source software and open speech models. Thank you to their authors. Each is used under its own licence, listed below. The full licence texts are also inside the app, under Help › Acknowledgements. These licences apply to those parts only, and nothing in the Nota terms limits your rights under them.
Inside the app
| Component | What it does in Nota | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| whisper.cpp 1.9.2, © The ggml authors | Runs Whisper models on your Mac | MIT |
| transcribe.cpp 0.2.4 | Runs Cohere Transcribe and SenseVoice on your Mac | MIT |
| FluidAudio 0.17.4, © FluidInference (its own bundled components listed in its licence folder) | Runs Parakeet and Nemotron models on your Mac | Apache 2.0 |
| Sparkle 2.9.2 | Checks for and installs updates | MIT |
| Silero VAD 5.1.2 (model file) | Detects speech in a recording | MIT |
| thinking-orbs 0.3.1, © 2026 Jakub Antalik | Geometry of the animated orb (adapted) | MIT |
| Instrument Sans and Instrument Serif, © 2022 The Instrument Sans / Instrument Serif Project Authors | Typefaces | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
Speech models you can download
These are not part of the app. Nota downloads one only when you choose it, from Hugging Face, and runs it on your Mac.
| Model | Made by | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Whisper (ggml files from ggerganov/whisper.cpp) | OpenAI | MIT |
| Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 and v3 (Core ML conversions by FluidInference) | NVIDIA | CC BY 4.0 |
| Parakeet Unified 0.6B (Core ML conversion by FluidInference) | NVIDIA | CC BY 4.0 |
| Nemotron speech models 0.6B (Core ML conversions by FluidInference) | NVIDIA | NVIDIA Open Model License |
| Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 (GGUF by handy-computer) | Cohere Labs | Apache 2.0 |
| SenseVoice Small (GGUF by handy-computer) | FunASR / FunAudioLLM (Alibaba Tongyi Lab) | FunASR Model License |
Apple’s built-in speech model is part of macOS and is covered by Apple’s own terms.
Licence texts
- MIT: opensource.org/license/mit
- Apache 2.0: apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- SIL Open Font License 1.1: openfontlicense.org
- CC BY 4.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- NVIDIA Open Model License: nvidia.com
- FunASR Model License: github.com/modelscope/FunASR
This list matches Nota 1.1.3. When a version adds, removes or upgrades a component or model, this page changes with it.