FlowCast

Terms of use

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These terms apply when you download and use FlowCast. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use FlowCast.

Use of FlowCast

FlowCast is church presentation software for Bible verses. It operates on a Mac with Apple silicon and on a Windows PC. Download FlowCast only from the FlowCast releases on GitHub.

FlowCast collects usage data, and the upload of this data is on at first. The privacy policy tells you which data FlowCast collects and how you turn collection and upload off.

Bible text

Caution: Most of the Bible versions in FlowCast are under copyright. Get permission from each publisher before you use or share FlowCast with them. The KJV, ASV, BSB, Darby, YLT and Tyndale are in the public domain.

Settings › Bible versions shows the full title and the copyright of each version. The same panel lists the versions that eBible.org lets you download and share.

Fluid Intelligence

Fluid Intelligence is fluid-1 by Altic, a changed Gemma model. Google supplies Gemma under the Gemma Terms of Use.

Caution: Do not use Fluid Intelligence in a church or other organization without written permission from Altic. Altic licenses the model for personal, non-commercial use only.

Third-party components

FlowCast uses these components. Each component has its own license:

  • The slide fonts Inter, Montserrat, Playfair Display, DM Serif Display, Lora, and Bebas Neue, from Fontsource, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
  • Trellis by DanFessler, for the panels. Its author lets you use Trellis for non-commercial work. For commercial use, you must get a license from its author.
  • FluidAudio by FluidInference on a Mac, and sherpa-onnx by the Next-gen Kaldi team on Windows, under the Apache License 2.0.
  • Silero VAD, under the MIT License.
  • The speech model Parakeet Unified 0.6B, licensed by NVIDIA Corporation under the NVIDIA Open Model License.
  • BGE small v1.5, under the MIT License, with Transformers.js, under the Apache License 2.0.
  • MLX Swift LM and MLX Swift, under the MIT License, and swift-transformers, under the Apache License 2.0, on a Mac.
  • llama.cpp, under the MIT License, on Windows.

The scripture text comes from eBible.org, bolls.life, the Beblia collection on GitHub, bible-presenter, and bible-api.eightlabs.xyz.

No warranty

FlowCast comes “as is”, without warranty of any kind. The speech recognition sometimes hears words incorrectly, and FlowCast can then show an incorrect verse. To examine each verse before it goes live, turn off Auto go live.

Changes to these terms

The FlowCast team can change these terms. The date at the top of this page shows the date of the last change.