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.
- MoonshineMIT
by Useful Sensors
Streaming speech recognition model used by the Live Transcription tool. Runs locally via onnx-community/moonshine-base-ONNX.
- Silero VADMIT
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.
Core framework & UI
- Next.jsMIT
by Vercel
React framework used to build and statically export the entire site.
- ReactMIT
by Meta
UI library powering every interactive tool on the site.
- Tailwind CSSMIT
by Tailwind Labs
Utility-first CSS framework used for all styling.
- Material SymbolsApache 2.0
by Google
Icon set used throughout the interface.
Tool-specific libraries
- qrcodeMIT
by soldair
QR code generation in the QR Code Generator tool.
- jsbarcodeMIT
by lindell
Barcode rendering in the Barcode Generator tool.
- pdf-libMIT
by Hopding
Browser PDF manipulation in the PDF Merge and Image to PDF tools.
- markedMIT
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.
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.