ToolCascade

Credits & Open Source Acknowledgments

ToolCascade stands on the shoulders of open source. Every tool on this site is powered by libraries and models published under permissive licenses by the people and teams credited below. We are deeply grateful to each contributor.

AI models & speech recognition

The Audio to Text and Live Transcription tools run entirely in your browser using these open source models and runtime.

  • by OpenAI

    Speech recognition model used by the Audio to Text tool. Runs locally in the browser via the ONNX export at onnx-community/whisper-base.en.

  • pyannote-segmentation-3.0MIT (ONNX community export)

    by pyannote

    Speaker segmentation model used by the Audio to Text tool to label Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc.

  • by Useful Sensors

    Streaming speech recognition model used by the Live Transcription tool. Runs locally via onnx-community/moonshine-base-ONNX.

  • by snakers4 / Silero Team

    Voice activity detection used by the Live Transcription tool to detect speech boundaries before transcription.

  • Transformers.jsApache 2.0

    by Hugging Face

    Browser ML runtime that loads and runs the speech models entirely on the client device using WebGPU or WebAssembly.

  • Kokoro-82MApache 2.0

    by hexgrad

    Speech synthesis model behind the Text to Speech tool. Runs locally in the browser via the ONNX export at onnx-community/Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX.

  • kokoro-jsApache 2.0

    by hexgrad

    JavaScript runtime for Kokoro that splits text into sentences and generates the audio inside a Web Worker.

Core framework & UI

  • by Vercel

    React framework used to build and statically export the entire site.

  • by Meta

    UI library powering every interactive tool on the site.

  • by Tailwind Labs

    Utility-first CSS framework used for all styling.

  • by Google

    Icon set used throughout the interface.

Tool-specific libraries

  • by soldair

    QR code generation in the QR Code Generator tool.

  • by lindell

    Barcode rendering in the Barcode Generator tool.

  • by Hopding

    Browser PDF manipulation in the PDF Merge and Image to PDF tools.

  • by Cantoo

    A maintained fork of pdf-lib that writes the new file in Redact PDF and edits pages in the other PDF tools.

  • PDF.jsApache-2.0

    by Mozilla

    Opens, renders and reads the text of PDFs in the PDF tools, and finds what to cover in Redact PDF.

  • by markedjs

    Markdown parsing in the Markdown Editor tool.

  • DOMPurifyApache 2.0 / MPL 2.0

    by cure53

    HTML sanitization for safe Markdown rendering.

  • TerserBSD-2-Clause

    by terser

    JavaScript minification in the JavaScript Minifier tool.

  • MediabunnyMPL 2.0

    by Vanilagy

    Writes the MP3 file for the Text to Speech download. Used unmodified.

  • by The LAME Project

    MP3 encoder behind the Text to Speech MP3 download, compiled to WebAssembly by Mediabunny and used unmodified. It loads as a separate file only when you export an MP3. Source code: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/files/lame/

License compliance

All third-party code and AI models on this site are used in compliance with their respective licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD-2-Clause, MPL 2.0). License texts are preserved in the dependencies' published packages and model repositories. If you believe an attribution is missing or incorrect, please get in touch via the contact details on the About page.