Re:Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
by robertlane0 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:10PM
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I'd classify it as "source-available" given the noncommercial clause in the license.
https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/blob/master/LIC...
Good call out. I tend to be very sensitive about these things, and this is a case where I messed up. Thanks for the correction.
Futo only produces source-available proprietary software. They most certainly are not Open Source, though they unfortunately lied about this a lot before they got called out enough times.
https://github.com/futo-org/voice-input/blob/master/LICENSE....
Good call... I got that one wrong. Thanks for the pointer!
Re:Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
by helterskelter2 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:11PM
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I've used FUDO keyboard for a long time, but I never tried using the voice input, so I'm testing it now. Let's see how well it transcribes everything.
...Okay that was pretty good.
https://futo.tech/
Edit: As others have pointed out, this is not actually open source. It's source-available, which is quite a bit different because folks can't fork and distribute it as easily. The license also appears to be revocable and non-transferable, which makes it different from open source licenses.