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Licenses & Acknowledgments

Reviewed 2026-11-08 · Hush for Mac and Windows

Hush is built on open-source software and on speech, speaker and language models published by others. This page credits each one and names its license, or says where the publisher states none. Their licenses, not Hush's, govern those parts. Each Hush release also ships its third-party notices and license texts.

Speech and language models

Whisper large-v3 — Hush Core ML conversion

Apache-2.0

Mac Speech-to-text (the Mac app's default transcription model)

Whisper large-v3 by OpenAI (Radford et al., "Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision", 2022).

Changes
Converted by Hush from OpenAI's original weights to Core ML (WhisperKit format) with Argmax's MIT-licensed whisperkittools. No fine-tuning, quantization or other weight changes. The tokenizer files are redistributed unchanged.
Source
huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3 @ 06f233fe06e7
Delivery
Hosted by Hush at downloads.hushmeetings.com.

Whisper large-v3-turbo — Hush Core ML conversion

MIT

Mac Speech-to-text (the "Faster" choice in Settings on Mac)

Whisper large-v3-turbo by OpenAI. Copyright (c) 2022 OpenAI.

Changes
Converted by Hush from OpenAI's original weights to Core ML (WhisperKit format) with whisperkittools. No weight changes.
Source
huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo @ 41f01f3fe87f
Delivery
Hosted by Hush at downloads.hushmeetings.com; downloaded only when you choose Faster.

Whisper large-v3-turbo — Hush CTranslate2 conversion

MIT

Windows Speech-to-text (the Windows app's default, "Most accurate")

Whisper large-v3-turbo by OpenAI. Copyright (c) 2022 OpenAI.

Changes
Converted by Hush from OpenAI's original weights to CTranslate2 format with 8-bit integer (int8) quantization. tokenizer.json and preprocessor_config.json are copied unchanged.
Source
huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo @ 41f01f3fe87f
Delivery
Included in the Windows installer; also hosted by Hush at downloads.hushmeetings.com.

Whisper small.en — Hush CTranslate2 conversion

Apache-2.0

Windows Speech-to-text (Windows "Faster, less accurate" option)

Whisper small.en by OpenAI (Radford et al., 2022).

Changes
Converted by Hush from OpenAI's original weights to CTranslate2 format at 16-bit floating point (float16). tokenizer.json and preprocessor_config.json are copied unchanged.
Source
huggingface.co/openai/whisper-small.en @ e8727524f962
Delivery
Included in the Windows installer; also hosted by Hush at downloads.hushmeetings.com.

Whisper large-v3-turbo — MLX conversion

NOASSERTION

Mac Live transcript while recording

Whisper large-v3-turbo by OpenAI (weights licensed MIT, Copyright (c) 2022 OpenAI); MLX conversion published by the mlx-community organization on Hugging Face, which states no license for its conversion.

Changes
Not modified by Hush.
Source
huggingface.co/mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo @ a4aaeec0636e
Delivery
Downloaded from Hugging Face during setup.

Whisper large-v3 — MLX conversion

Apache-2.0

Mac Backup transcription engine (used only when the faster engine is unavailable)

Whisper large-v3 by OpenAI, whose weights are licensed Apache-2.0; MLX conversion published by the mlx-community organization on Hugging Face, whose model card states MIT for the conversion. Apache-2.0 continues to govern OpenAI's weights.

Changes
Not modified by Hush.
Source
huggingface.co/mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-mlx @ 49e6aa286ad6
Delivery
Downloaded from Hugging Face only if needed.

Whisper large-v3 — Argmax WhisperKit conversion (previous default)

NOASSERTION

Mac Speech-to-text (only on installs that still have it, or when selected manually)

Whisper large-v3 by OpenAI (weights licensed Apache-2.0); Core ML conversion by Argmax, Inc. (argmaxinc/whisperkit-coreml, variant openai_whisper-large-v3_turbo). Argmax states no license for its conversion in that repository.

Changes
Not modified by Hush.
Source
huggingface.co/argmaxinc/whisperkit-coreml @ 97a5bf9bbc74
Delivery
No longer downloaded by default. Earlier installs keep their copy until Hush's own conversion is in place.

SpeakerKit speaker models — Argmax Core ML

CC-BY-4.0

Mac Telling speakers apart (segmentation, voice embeddings, clustering)

"SpeakerKit Core ML" models by Argmax, Inc., licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Changes
Not modified. Hush redistributes the 20 files it uses byte-for-byte and checks every file's SHA-256 before use.
Source
huggingface.co/argmaxinc/speakerkit-coreml @ 556fc52a1332
Delivery
Hosted by Hush at downloads.hushmeetings.com.

Built on

  • pyannote segmentation-3.0 MITCopyright (c) 2023 CNRS Converted to Core ML by Argmax. huggingface.co/pyannote/segmentation-3.0
  • WeSpeaker VoxCeleb ResNet34-LM CC-BY-4.0WeSpeaker project contributors; Wang et al., "WeSpeaker: A Research and Production Oriented Speaker Embedding Learning Toolkit"; Zeinali et al., "BUT System Description to VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2019". Trained on VoxCeleb2. Packaged by pyannote; converted to Core ML and quantized by Argmax. huggingface.co/Wespeaker/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM
  • VBx PLDA speaker-clustering model Apache-2.0BUT Speech@FIT, Brno University of Technology. Packaged as SpeakerKit's PLDA projector by Argmax. github.com/BUTSpeechFIT/VBx

Argmax does not endorse Hush. No warranties are given. Neither WeSpeaker, pyannote, the model authors nor the VoxCeleb creators endorse Hush.

pyannote segmentation-3.0 — ONNX conversion

MIT

Windows Telling speakers apart (finding speaker turns)

pyannote segmentation-3.0 by CNRS / pyannote; ONNX conversion by the onnx-community organization on Hugging Face (MIT). Copyright (c) 2023 CNRS.

Changes
Not modified by Hush.
Source
huggingface.co/onnx-community/pyannote-segmentation-3.0 @ 733a93b6473d
Delivery
Included in the Windows installer.

SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN speaker embedder — Hush ONNX export

Apache-2.0

Windows Recognising voices (speaker embeddings)

spkrec-ecapa-voxceleb by the SpeechBrain project (Ravanelli et al., "SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit", 2021); ECAPA-TDNN by Desplanques, Thienpondt and Demuynck (Interspeech 2020). Trained on VoxCeleb 1 and 2.

Changes
Exported by Hush from the original weights to ONNX (opset 17). Hush reimplements SpeechBrain's audio features in its own code.
Source
huggingface.co/speechbrain/spkrec-ecapa-voxceleb @ 0f99f2d0ebe8
Delivery
Included in the Windows installer.

Gemma 4 (E4B, 12B, 26B-A4B, 31B) — GGUF builds

Apache-2.0

Mac On-device summaries, action items and answers

Gemma 4 by Google DeepMind; 4-bit (Q4_K_M) GGUF quantizations by bartowski. The tier chosen in Settings decides which one is downloaded.

Changes
Not modified by Hush.
Source
ai.google.dev/gemma
Delivery
Downloaded from Hugging Face during setup.

Built on

Google does not endorse Hush. Gemma is a trademark of Google LLC.

Gemma 4 E4B — Ollama build

Apache-2.0

Windows On-device summaries, action items and answers

Gemma 4 by Google DeepMind, as packaged by Ollama (model gemma4:e4b).

Changes
Not modified by Hush.
Source
ollama.com/library/gemma4
Delivery
Downloaded by Ollama, which you install separately, during setup.

Google does not endorse Hush. Gemma is a trademark of Google LLC.

Components with additional terms

These components carry license terms beyond credit, such as your right to the source code or to replace the library.

  • Intel OpenMP runtime (libiomp5md.dll)shipped inside the CTranslate2 4.8.2 wheelWindows
    LicenseRef-Vendor-Redistributable

    Redistributed unmodified as part of CTranslate2 under Intel's redistribution terms. github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2

  • libsndfile1.2.2 (inside python-soundfile)Mac · Windows
    LGPL-2.1-or-later

    Copyright (C) 1999-2023 Erik de Castro Lopo and contributors. Reads and writes Hush's audio files. Hush uses it unmodified as a separate dynamic library (libsndfile_arm64.dylib on Mac, libsndfile_x64.dll on Windows). You may replace it with your own build. Source: https://github.com/libsndfile/libsndfile/releases/tag/1.2.2. github.com/libsndfile/libsndfile

  • GCC runtime libraries (libgfortran, libgcc_s) and libquadmathinside SciPyMac
    GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-3.1 AND LGPL-2.1-or-later

    Copyright (C) Free Software Foundation, Inc. SciPy's compiled math code needs these runtime libraries. The GCC Runtime Library Exception allows their use in any program; libquadmath is LGPL-2.1-or-later and used unmodified as a separate dynamic library; its source is part of GCC. gcc.gnu.org/

  • FFmpeg (separate program)8.1, static arm64 build from osxexperts.netMac
    GPL-2.0-or-later

    Hush runs FFmpeg as a separate program to convert audio; it is not part of Hush's own code. Source code: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/tree/release/8.1. The written offer of source ships with Hush as FFMPEG_SOURCE_OFFER.txt. ffmpeg.org/

  • Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime14.44Windows
    LicenseRef-Microsoft-VC-Runtime

    Redistributed unmodified under Microsoft's Visual C++ redistributable terms. learn.microsoft.com/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist

Runtimes and bundled libraries

  • Python3.13Mac · Windows
    PSF-2.0

    Copyright (c) 2001 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved. Hush ships its own copy of the Python runtime, including OpenSSL (Apache-2.0), SQLite (public domain), zlib, libffi, expat and mpdecimal under their own permissive licenses.

  • Tcl/Tk9.0Mac
    TCL

    Copyright (c) the Regents of the University of California, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Scriptics Corporation, and other parties. Part of the bundled Python runtime.

  • WhisperKit, SpeakerKit and ArgmaxCoreargmax-oss-swift @ 94cf6b12Mac
    MIT

    Copyright (c) 2024 argmax, inc. Speech and speaker engines on the Neural Engine. Parts of ArgmaxCore derive from Hugging Face swift-transformers (Apache-2.0, Copyright 2022 Hugging Face SAS).

  • llama.cpp / ggmlb8690 (via llama.swift)Mac
    MIT

    Copyright (c) 2023 Georgi Gerganov.

  • MLX0.29.3Mac
    MIT

    Copyright (c) 2023 Apple Inc. Listed again under Python packages as mlx, mlx-metal and mlx-whisper.

  • CTranslate2 and faster-whisper4.8.2 / 1.2.1Windows
    MIT

    Copyright (c) 2018- SYSTRAN; Copyright (c) 2019- The OpenNMT Authors; faster-whisper Copyright (c) 2023 SYSTRAN. The Windows speech engine. Listed again under Python packages.

  • PortAudioinside python-sounddeviceMac · Windows
    MIT

    Copyright (c) 1999-2011 Ross Bencina and Phil Burk. Microphone capture.

  • OpenBLASinside NumPy and SciPyWindows
    BSD-3-Clause

    Copyright (c) 2011-2014, The OpenBLAS Project.

  • Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
  • Image libraries inside PillowPillow 12.3.0Mac · Windows
    FTL AND IJG AND BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND Zlib AND Libpng AND libtiff

    Pillow includes FreeType, libjpeg-turbo, libpng, libtiff, libwebp, libavif, OpenJPEG, Little CMS, HarfBuzz, Brotli, liblzma and zlib-ng. Their full license texts ship with Hush. Portions of this software are copyright © The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved. This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

  • OpenSSLinside PyCA cryptographyMac
    Apache-2.0

    Copyright (c) 1998-2025 The OpenSSL Project Authors.

  • Unicode character dataderived speaker-name data in the Windows interfaceWindows
    Unicode-3.0

    Copyright © 1991-2025 Unicode, Inc.

  • htmx1.9.12Mac · Windows
    BSD-2-Clause

    Copyright (c) 2020, Big Sky Software.

  • idiomorphhtmx extensionMac · Windows
    BSD-2-Clause

    Copyright (c) 2022, Big Sky Software.

  • Tailwind CSS3.4.17 (pre-built stylesheet)Mac · Windows
    MIT

    Copyright (c) Tailwind Labs, Inc.

  • OFL-1.1

    Anek Latin by Ek Type; Onest by Dmitri Voloshin; Noto Sans Mono by Google. Bundled unmodified.

Python packages 78

Swift packages 10

Windows interface packages 22

The full license and copyright text of each of these packages ships with Hush for Windows in its THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md ("Experimental installed interface — npm source inventory").

License texts

Questions about a license or a request for source code covered by one of these licenses: beta@hushmeetings.com.