Licences and sources
Talkie is built on free software and open data. The complete list ships with the program as LIZENZEN.txt.
Models (run locally)
Qwen3 8B – Apache License 2.0 · Whisper (OpenAI) – MIT · EmbeddingGemma – Gemma Terms of Use · Ollama – MIT · Voice: Qwen3-TTS (Alibaba Qwen) – Apache License 2.0, accelerated with faster-qwen3-tts – MIT; the voices Mia, Ava, Leo and Noah were designed artificially with Qwen3-TTS VoiceDesign (Apache License 2.0)
Software
PySide6 / Qt for Python – LGPL-3.0 · Fonts Geist / Geist Mono – SIL Open Font License 1.1 · PyTorch – BSD-3-Clause · faster-whisper, CTranslate2, ddgs, keyboard, mss, sounddevice, moderngl, timezonefinder – MIT · numpy, psutil, PyAV, send2trash – BSD · requests, openWakeWord, transformers – Apache 2.0
The packages are downloaded from their official sources during installation and used as independent libraries.
Data and services
Weather: data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0) · Places and maps: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Country borders: Natural Earth (public domain) · Knowledge: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Public transport: transport.opendata.ch · Exchange rates: Frankfurter (ECB reference rates) · Web search: DuckDuckGo · News: Google News · 3D models: Sketchfab / Objaverse (licence per model, shown in Talkie; no models with a “NonCommercial” licence)
This website
Astro – MIT · GSAP – GreenSock standard licence (free for commercial websites too) · Supabase JS – MIT · Fonts Inter and Instrument Sans – SIL Open Font License 1.1 (served from our own server, not from Google)