Pepys Dictate for Mac
Open-source licences
Pepys Dictate is built on open-source software and AI models. These are the projects it includes and the licences they come under. The same notices ship inside the app.
Software
transcribe.cpp and ggml
MITSpeech inference. transcribe.cpp by handy-computer; ggml by Georgi Gerganov and contributors.
llama.cpp
MITRuns the formatting model on your Mac. By Georgi Gerganov and contributors.
AI models
- CC BY 4.0
Speech recognition model. Attribution: NVIDIA.
Qwen3.5 and Pepys fine-tunes
Apache 2.0Local formatting models: Qwen3.5 by Alibaba Cloud (Qwen team), and Pepys's own fine-tunes of it, released under the same licence.
Other optional speech models are downloaded on request, and the in-app model list shows each one's licence.