Open source licenses

Last updated August 16, 2026

Axo is built on open source work. The components below are included in the app or downloaded by it, with our thanks to their authors.

Supertonic (Supertone Inc.)

On-device text-to-speech. The inference code is a port of Supertone's official Swift reference, used under the MIT License; the model weights are used under the OpenRAIL-M License, which permits commercial use and attaches use restrictions aimed at preventing harm — including a prohibition on generating speech intended to deceive or to impersonate a person without consent. Axo uses the model only to voice its own fictional tutor characters.
github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic

Kokoro-82M

Text-to-speech model and tokenizer, Apache License 2.0.
huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M · ONNX build

Phonemis (Igor Swat)

Grapheme-to-phoneme engine, MIT License.
github.com/IgorSwat/Phonemis

xsimd (xtensor-stack)

SIMD primitives used by the phoneme engine, BSD 3-Clause License.
github.com/xtensor-stack/xsimd

ONNX Runtime (Microsoft)

Neural network inference engine, MIT License.
github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime

React Native and Expo

Application framework, MIT License.
github.com/facebook/react-native · github.com/expo/expo

Everything else

Axo also depends on a number of smaller open source packages, each under its own permissive license (MIT, BSD, or Apache 2.0). For a full dependency list or a copy of any license text, write to brucegarro@gmail.com.