The on-device models are downloaded from Hugging Face on first use and cached locally; the runtimes ship inside the extension. By using Rongo's on-device voices and on-device language model, you agree to the use restrictions of the Supertonic and Gemma models reproduced below.
On-device models
| Model | Used for | License |
|---|---|---|
| Supertonic 3 | Polish TTS (Supertonic engine) | BigScience Open RAIL-M (weights); MIT (inference code) |
| Gemma 4 E2B | On-device Summarise / Translate | Gemma Terms of Use |
| Kokoro-82M | English TTS | Apache-2.0 |
| Piper voices | Polish TTS (Piper engine) | MIT (repo); per-voice dataset licenses |
| Whisper (tiny.en / base) | Optional karaoke word-timing | MIT |
1. Supertonic 3 — Open RAIL-M (use restrictions apply)
Polish on-device voices. Source: Supertone/supertonic-3. Author: Supertone, Inc. The model weights are licensed under the BigScience Open RAIL-M License (the ported inference code is MIT). Commercial use is permitted, but the license imposes use-based restrictions that pass to every downstream user.
2. Gemma 4 E2B — Gemma Terms of Use
On-device Summarise / Translate model. Source: onnx-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-ONNX. Author: Google LLC (ONNX conversion by ONNX Community).
3. Kokoro-82M — Apache-2.0
English on-device voices. Source:
onnx-community/Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX.
Author: hexgrad (Kokoro-82M); ONNX conversion by ONNX Community; built on
StyleTTS 2 (yl4579/StyleTTS2-LJSpeech). Licensed under the
Apache License 2.0.
4. Piper voices — MIT
Polish on-device voices for the Piper engine, from
rhasspy/piper-voices
(MIT; mirrored at diffusionstudio/piper-voices). Voices shipped:
gosia, darkman, mc_speech, mls_6892.
Each voice's training-data license is recorded in its per-voice MODEL_CARD
(licenses vary by source dataset — e.g. Multilingual LibriSpeech for the
mls_* voices).
Community Polish voices jarvis and justyna come from
WitoldG/polish_piper_models
(declared MIT; voice-source provenance undocumented).
5. Whisper — MIT
Optional on-device karaoke word-timing. Source:
onnx-community/whisper-tiny.en_timestamped and
onnx-community/whisper-base_timestamped. Author: OpenAI (Whisper);
ONNX conversion by ONNX Community. Licensed under the
MIT License.
Bundled / loaded runtimes
| Component | Author | License |
|---|---|---|
| ONNX Runtime Web | Microsoft | MIT |
| Transformers.js | Hugging Face | Apache-2.0 |
| kokoro-js | hexgrad / Xenova | Apache-2.0 |
| piper-tts-web | Mintplex Labs | MIT |
| piper-phonemize / espeak-ng | espeak-ng | GPL-3.0 (loaded from CDN, not redistributed in-package) |
Corrections
Questions or corrections about attribution: meethemoser@gmail.com.