articleactiveLocal models and model tooling Audio and speech

Can the Meta open speech-translation toolchain (SeamlessM4T v2, SeamlessStreaming, SeamlessExpressive, NLLB-200) be used in a commercial dubbing pipeline, and which licence applies to which component?

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Seamless code (and the W2v-BERT 2.0 encoder, UnitY2 aligner, toxicity tools and the text-only part of mExpresso) is MIT; SeamlessM4T v1/v2 and SeamlessStreaming weights are CC BY-NC 4.0 (the HF v2 card agrees); Seamless and SeamlessExpressive weights fall under a separate Seamless Licensing Agreement limited to noncommercial research that also bars commercial use of outputs, terminates on IP litigation against Meta and requires indemnity; NLLB-200 models are CC BY-NC 4.0 while fairseq code is MIT. Commercial dubbing with these weights is not permitted by these texts. Curator qualifications: Licence files read 2026-10-22; no model downloaded or run; not legal advice. Acceptable Use Policy not read. mExpresso audio part terms not covered by the MIT line (unclear). fairseq LICENSE not re-read (producer: MIT). Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: Licence files read 2026-10-22; no model downloaded or run; not legal advice. [component_reuse_restriction] Eligible with rights hold (non-commercial weights; outputs restricted for Expressive); T13 AI dubbing: do not use for commercial deliverables. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication/blob/9a081e935c29c6b1e0e05bcbf3fcb623ad306524/MIT_LICENSE",
      "note": "seamless_communication README.md L298-317 at 9a081e9; LICENSE; SEAMLESS_LICENSE L11, L22, L30, L41; MIT_LICENSE; fairseq examples/nllb/modeling/README.md L30 at ec0ae71; HF facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large README front matter at 5f8cc79"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/blob/ec0ae71a24fbc2f42252f37735f59dd6547eba38/examples/nllb/modeling/README.md",
      "note": "seamless_communication README.md L298-317 at 9a081e9; LICENSE; SEAMLESS_LICENSE L11, L22, L30, L41; MIT_LICENSE; fairseq examples/nllb/modeling/README.md L30 at ec0ae71; HF facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large README front matter at 5f8cc79"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/blob/ec0ae71a24fbc2f42252f37735f59dd6547eba38/LICENSE",
      "note": "seamless_communication README.md L298-317 at 9a081e9; LICENSE; SEAMLESS_LICENSE L11, L22, L30, L41; MIT_LICENSE; fairseq examples/nllb/modeling/README.md L30 at ec0ae71; HF facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large README front matter at 5f8cc79"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large/raw/5f8cc790b19fc3f67a61c105133b20b34e3dcb76/README.md",
      "note": "seamless_communication README.md L298-317 at 9a081e9; LICENSE; SEAMLESS_LICENSE L11, L22, L30, L41; MIT_LICENSE; fairseq examples/nllb/modeling/README.md L30 at ec0ae71; HF facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large README front matter at 5f8cc79"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication/blob/9a081e935c29c6b1e0e05bcbf3fcb623ad306524/README.md",
      "note": "seamless_communication README.md L298-317 at 9a081e9; LICENSE; SEAMLESS_LICENSE L11, L22, L30, L41; MIT_LICENSE; fairseq examples/nllb/modeling/README.md L30 at ec0ae71; HF facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large README front matter at 5f8cc79"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication/blob/9a081e935c29c6b1e0e05bcbf3fcb623ad306524/LICENSE",
      "note": "seamless_communication README.md L298-317 at 9a081e9; LICENSE; SEAMLESS_LICENSE L11, L22, L30, L41; MIT_LICENSE; fairseq examples/nllb/modeling/README.md L30 at ec0ae71; HF facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large README front matter at 5f8cc79"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication/blob/9a081e935c29c6b1e0e05bcbf3fcb623ad306524/SEAMLESS_LICENSE",
      "note": "seamless_communication README.md L298-317 at 9a081e9; LICENSE; SEAMLESS_LICENSE L11, L22, L30, L41; MIT_LICENSE; fairseq examples/nllb/modeling/README.md L30 at ec0ae71; HF facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large README front matter at 5f8cc79"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Seamless code (and the W2v-BERT 2.0 encoder, UnitY2 aligner, toxicity tools and the text-only part of mExpresso) is MIT; SeamlessM4T v1/v2 and SeamlessStreaming weights are CC BY-NC 4.0 (the HF v2 card agrees); Seamless and SeamlessExpressive weights fall under a separate Seamless Licensing Agreement limited to noncommercial research that also bars commercial use of outputs, terminates on IP litigation against Meta and requires indemnity; NLLB-200 models are CC BY-NC 4.0 while fairseq code is MIT. Commercial dubbing with these weights is not permitted by these texts. · locator: seamless_communication README.md L298-317 at 9a081e9; LICENSE; SEAMLESS_LICENSE L11, L22, L30, L41; MIT_LICENSE; fairseq examples/nllb/modeling/README.md L30 at ec0ae71; HF facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large README front matter at 5f8cc79 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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