V1 speech recognition on Core ML Copyright Harshit B. The repository as a whole is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE). 1. Core ML package (v1.mlpackage), derived from google/embeddinggemma-2 It contains layers 0-11 of the audio tower of EmbeddingGemma 2 by Google DeepMind, https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-2 (revision 914f7f89142e33e77833254d9c9b90c3cef7303b), licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/gemma_4_license). Modifications made by Harshit B.: - the audio tower truncated after layer 11 and converted to Core ML ML programs, one function per fixed input window (5, 10, 20, 35 s) sharing one set of weights; - blocked local attention rewritten as dense banded attention (identical in fp32); - RMSNorm inputs scaled by powers of two so fp16 norms on the CPU / GPU do not overflow, and constant padding fill (identical in fp32); - log-softmax rewritten in a numerically stable form; static shapes; - a per-frame int8 quantize/dequantize step, standardization and a CTC head appended; - weights stored in float16. The upstream model card states that deployments must adhere to the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/prohibited_use_policy config.json embeds the upstream preprocessor_config.json unchanged. 2. CTC head (inside v1.mlpackage) and tokenizer (spm_unigram256.model) Trained by Harshit B. on the LibriSpeech ASR corpus, OpenSLR SLR12, https://www.openslr.org/12/ (license stated there: CC BY 4.0). V. Panayotov, G. Chen, D. Povey and S. Khudanpur, "LibriSpeech: an ASR corpus based on public domain audio books", ICASSP 2015. 3. Language model (sp256_6gram.bin) Built with KenLM (https://github.com/kpu/kenlm; no KenLM code is included) from librispeech-lm-norm.txt.gz of "LibriSpeech language models, vocabulary and G2P models", OpenSLR SLR11, https://www.openslr.org/11/ (license stated there: Public domain). 4. Decoder (not included; used by the usage example) ctc-beam-decoder 0.2.0, https://pypi.org/project/ctc-beam-decoder/, Apache License, Version 2.0.