Full licence texts come with the apps. On Windows: THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt in the install folder (usually C:\Program Files\ShoutAbout), generated from exactly what each version ships. On iPhone: Settings › Font licenses.
ShoutAbout for Windows
| Component | What it does | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Whisper speech models (OpenAI), in CTranslate2 format | Turns speech into text. Downloaded on first run, not in the installer. | MIT |
| faster-whisper | Runs the Whisper models | MIT |
| CTranslate2 | Fast model engine | MIT (Intel OpenMP runtime under Intel's redistribution terms) |
| Silero VAD | Finds where speech starts and stops | MIT |
| ONNX Runtime | Runs Silero VAD | MIT (includes Eigen, MPL-2.0) |
| NVIDIA cuBLAS and NVRTC | Speed on NVIDIA graphics cards | NVIDIA CUDA EULA (redistributable components) |
| NumPy | Audio maths | BSD-3-Clause and bundled runtime notices |
| sounddevice and PortAudio | The microphone | MIT |
| FastAPI, Starlette, Pydantic, Uvicorn, HTTPX | Talking to your iPhone | MIT and BSD-3-Clause |
| Hugging Face Hub, hf-xet, Tokenizers | Downloading the speech model | Apache-2.0 |
| cryptography (with OpenSSL), PyJWT | Secure connections and the optional tunnel | Apache-2.0 / BSD-3-Clause, MIT |
| segno, psutil, tomlkit, PyYAML, protobuf, and their dependencies | QR codes, hardware checks, settings files | BSD-3-Clause, MIT |
| tqdm, certifi | Progress and trusted certificates | MPL-2.0 (and MIT), unmodified |
| Python and Tcl/Tk | The runtime and the setup window | PSF License, Tcl/Tk licence |
| PyInstaller bootloader, Inno Setup | Package the app and the installer | GPL-2.0 with the bootloader exception; Inno Setup licence |
The optional “Clean up wording with AI” uses Ollama if you've installed it yourself. ShoutAbout doesn't include Ollama or its models.
ShoutAbout for Mac
The same speech, network and settings components as the Windows app, without NVIDIA's libraries, plus:
| Component | What it does | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| PyObjC | The menu bar, the pop-up mouth, the key and pasting, through macOS's own frameworks | MIT |
| PyInstaller bootloader | Packages the app | GPL-2.0 with the bootloader exception |
Full licence texts are in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt inside the app.
ShoutAbout for iPhone
Built only with Apple's own frameworks, plus two fonts:
| Component | Licence |
|---|---|
| Anton (The Anton Project Authors) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Archivo (The Archivo Project Authors) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
This website
Hand-written HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript, with no frameworks and nothing loaded from other sites. It uses Anton and Archivo, served from this site in a smaller (Latin-only) form, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: Anton licence, Archivo licence.
The ShoutAbout name and mouth
The ShoutAbout name, the mouth logo and its animation are ours, and aren't covered by any of the licences above.