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What Fraze is built on.

The Fraze desktop app ships the open-source software and models below, each under its own license. This list covers what actually ships; it does not cover this website.

Bergamot translator and Firefox Translations models

MPL-2.0

The on-device translation engine, run as WebAssembly in a background thread. The translation model files are the ones Firefox ships, from Mozilla's Firefox Translations project.

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sherpa-onnx

Apache-2.0

Runs speech recognition (Parakeet TDT, below) and voice activity detection on-device.

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NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3

CC-BY-4.0

The speech recognition model, per its model card. Fraze downloads a quantized copy of these weights on first use; see the model card for the license that governs them.

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Silero VAD

MIT

Detects when someone is speaking, so Fraze knows where to start and end a caption.

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ONNX Runtime

MIT

Runs the ONNX models sherpa-onnx and Bergamot use.

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Electron

MIT

The application shell Fraze is built on.

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DM Sans

OFL-1.1

The typeface used throughout the app.

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country-flag-icons

MIT

Flag icons used in the language pickers.

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