SpeechBrain

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public

core features withheld

no — an academic, community-run project with no company behind it and no paid tier

SpeechBrain is Apache-2.0 and the published repository is the whole toolkit. It is an academically driven community project rather than a company, and nothing is sold alongside it.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/develop/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-27

  LICENSE body: "Apache License" / "Version 2.0, January 2004".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/develop/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  README: "You are free to redistribute SpeechBrain for both free and commercial purposes, with the condition of retaining license headers."; "SpeechBrain is an academically driven project and relies on the passion and enthusiasm of its contributors."

• https://speechbrain.github.io/ recorded 2026-09-27

  Homepage: "SpeechBrain isn't a company or an association. It is an open-source toolkit and a community created by Dr. Mirco Ravanelli and co-created by Dr. Titouan Parcollet."

PyPI downloads of the speechbrain package. Its pretrained speaker-embedding model is also pulled directly from the Hub by other tools, which this figure does not count.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/speechbrain/recent recorded 2026-09-27

  "last_month":979442 for speechbrain.

The broadest open toolkit for training speech models across tasks, a step below NeMo, whose own recognizers rank near the top of the public boards and which streams.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/develop/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  README: "We share over 200 competitive training [recipes](recipes) on more than 40 datasets supporting 20 speech and text processing tasks"; "We are focusing on real-time, streamable, and small-footprint Conversational AI."