Governance

Security

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License (matching transcribe.cpp).

There is a second licence in play that this one does not cover, and it is easy to miss: the models you load are not covered. They come from different ecosystems with different terms, some non-commercial. See Model licenses.

Attribution

This project is a packaging and binding effort only — the underlying library is not my work:

• The native library (transcribe.cpp) is developed and owned by the transcribe.cpp authors (MIT License).
• The bundled native components (ggml, etc.) are owned by their respective authors; their MIT license texts are distributed alongside the binaries in the TranscribeCppSharp.Native.* packages.
• I did not author the native library and claim no credit for it. This repository only adds:
  • A C# interop layer (auto-generated P/Invoke bindings via LibraryImport).
  • A high-level C# wrapper (IDisposable resources, typed exceptions).
  • A command-line tool (transcribe) and the model manifest it resolves against.
  • Pre-built native binaries packaged for .NET consumption.

The transcribe.cpp project is an independent upstream project; bug reports about the native library itself should go to its repository.

The speech-to-text models are third-party work as well, and none of them are bundled here: Whisper, Moonshine, Parakeet, Canary, GigaAM, Voxtral, Qwen3-ASR and the MOSS diarization model are all developed by their own authors and carry their own terms. The alias list links each model’s licence but does not redistribute it — see Model licenses.

The same attribution appears in README.md and in the NuGet package description, and tools/license-check.sh fails CI if it is removed from the README — the README is packed into every package, so the credit has to travel with the binaries.