These Terms of Use and End User License Agreement (the "Agreement") govern your download, installation, and use of the PulsarVoice application (the "Software") and your use of the website at voice.pulsaros.ca (the "Website"). The Software and the Website are provided by PulsarOS Intelligence Inc., a corporation existing under the Canada Business Corporations Act, corporation number 17777191, business number 730610631RC0001 ("PulsarOS", "we", "us", or "our").
By downloading, installing, accessing, or using the Software or the Website, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not download, install, access, or use the Software or the Website.
PulsarVoice is a free desktop application for macOS, Windows, and Linux that gives terminal based artificial intelligence agents a local voice. The Software allows an agent to speak its work out loud and to hear your spoken replies, and it lets several agents share a single microphone in an orderly, cooperative way. You download the Software from the Website, and it runs entirely on your own computer.
Subject to your continued compliance with this Agreement, PulsarOS grants you a personal, free of charge, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to download, install, and use the Software on computers that you own or control, for your own personal or commercial purposes.
This is a license, not a sale. PulsarOS does not sell the Software to you, and you acquire no ownership interest in the Software or the Website by accepting this Agreement. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by PulsarOS.
The Software is free to download and free to use, for both personal and commercial use, at no cost. There is no purchase price, no subscription fee, and no charge of any kind for the Software. Because the Software is provided free of charge, there are no payment terms and no refund terms.
The Software is proprietary. It is not open source software. The source code, the design, the user interface, and any models authored by PulsarOS and distributed with the Software are the confidential and proprietary property of PulsarOS Intelligence Inc. and remain the property of PulsarOS at all times.
You may install and run the Software as permitted by this Agreement, but, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction, you may not:
The restrictions in this Section do not apply to the third-party components described in Section 12, which are governed by their own license terms.
As between you and PulsarOS, PulsarOS and its licensors own all right, title, and interest in and to the Software and the Website, including all intellectual property rights in the source code, object code, design, interfaces, models authored by PulsarOS, documentation, trademarks, logos, and all related materials. The PulsarOS and PulsarVoice names, logos, and brand features are the property of PulsarOS, and nothing in this Agreement grants you any right to use them except as strictly necessary to use the Software as permitted.
Your own data, including any voice history, transcripts, answer files, and configuration created on your computer through your use of the Software, belongs to you. PulsarOS claims no ownership of your data and does not receive it. See Section 7 for how the Software handles data locally.
Your use of the Software and the Website is subject to our Acceptable Use Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by reference and which forms part of these terms. You agree to use the Software and the Website only for lawful purposes and in compliance with that policy and all applicable laws. If there is a conflict between this Agreement and the Acceptable Use Policy regarding permitted conduct, the more restrictive provision applies.
The Software is designed to run locally on your own computer.
Local processing. Speech synthesis (turning text into speech) and speech recognition (turning your speech into text) run entirely on your machine using local models. The voice path makes no network connection. Microphone audio is captured, transcribed locally, and handled on your device. No audio, transcript, or text from the voice path is transmitted to PulsarOS or to any third party by the Software.
Network use. The only times the Software uses the network are to download the Software and its models once from the Website, and, if you choose to check for or install them, to fetch software updates. After installation, the Software is designed to operate offline.
No accounts, no telemetry. We do not require an account to use the Software. For the running product, we do not operate servers, and the Software does not perform telemetry, analytics, tracking, crash reporting, or advertising.
Your local data. Your data created through the Software, including voice history, cooperative floor state, answer files, models, and configuration, is stored as ordinary files in your own user directory on your own computer. You can read, back up, move, or delete those files. You are responsible for safeguarding, backing up, and managing your own data and computer.
Connected AI agents are your responsibility. PulsarVoice provides a voice surface for AI agents that you choose to run. PulsarOS does not control, operate, supply, or endorse those agents, and PulsarOS is not responsible for what any agent says, does, decides, or produces. You are solely responsible for the AI agents you connect to the Software, for the instructions you give them, for the actions they take on your computer or elsewhere, and for your reliance on anything they say through the Software. The Software speaks on behalf of the agents you run; it does not verify, correct, or take responsibility for their output.
PulsarOS may make updates, upgrades, bug fixes, or new versions of the Software available from time to time through the Website. Updates are optional and are fetched only when you choose to check for or install them. This Agreement governs any update unless the update is accompanied by a separate license, in which case that separate license governs the update. PulsarOS is under no obligation to provide any update, to maintain support for any version, or to continue making the Software available.
This Agreement is effective until terminated.
You may terminate this Agreement at any time by ceasing all use of the Software and the Website and uninstalling the Software from your computers.
PulsarOS may terminate or suspend this Agreement and the license granted to you, immediately and without notice, if you breach any term of this Agreement.
Upon termination, the license granted to you ends and you must stop using the Software and remove all copies in your possession or control. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including Sections 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15, survive termination of this Agreement. Termination does not affect your local data, which remains under your control on your own computer.
THE SOFTWARE AND THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, PULSAROS AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Without limiting the foregoing, PulsarOS does not warrant that the Software or the Website will be uninterrupted, error free, secure, or free of harmful components, that defects will be corrected, that speech recognition or speech synthesis will be accurate, or that the Software will meet your requirements or be compatible with your hardware, operating system, or other software. You assume the entire risk as to the quality, performance, and results of the Software.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. In that case, any warranty that cannot be excluded is limited to the minimum scope and duration permitted by applicable law.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL PULSAROS OR ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE SOFTWARE, OR THE WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT PULSAROS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF PULSAROS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE SOFTWARE, OR THE WEBSITE WILL NOT EXCEED ZERO CANADIAN DOLLARS (CAD 0), REFLECTING THAT THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you. In that case, PulsarOS's liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
The Software includes or uses certain third-party software components that are provided under their own license terms. Those components are not subject to the proprietary restrictions in Section 4, and your rights and obligations with respect to them are governed by their respective licenses. Attribution and license details for these components are provided in the Third-Party Notices document made available with the Software and on the Website.
For clarity, the media handling utility commonly known as ffmpeg is a separate dependency that you provide and install on your own system for audio capture and playback. The Software invokes ffmpeg if it is present on your system but does not bundle or redistribute it. Your use of ffmpeg is governed by the license terms applicable to that software as you obtained it.
You agree to use the Software and the Website only in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, including applicable Canadian export control laws and any applicable export, re-export, sanctions, and import laws of other jurisdictions. You represent that you are not located in, and are not a national of or ordinarily resident in, a country or territory subject to a comprehensive embargo or sanctions that would prohibit your use of the Software, and that you are not a person with whom dealings are prohibited under applicable sanctions laws. You may not use the Software for any purpose prohibited by applicable law.
This Agreement is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of [ONTARIO] and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict of laws principles. You agree that the courts located in the Province of [ONTARIO] will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the Software, or the Website, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts, subject to any mandatory rights you may have under the consumer protection laws of your place of residence.
Because the running product does not collect, transmit, or receive your personal information, and because all processing and storage occur locally on your own computer, the Software is designed to minimize data protection obligations by design. PulsarOS does not operate servers for the running product, does not use telemetry or analytics, and does not track users. The Website is a static information and download site with no cookies, no analytics, and no tracking.
Canada. PulsarOS handles personal information in accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and applicable provincial privacy legislation. Because the Software does not collect personal information, these obligations are largely satisfied by design.
European Union and United Kingdom. For users in the European Union and the United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR grant rights such as access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection. Because the Software collects no personal data and stores all data locally under your control, most of these obligations are satisfied by design, and you can exercise access, portability, and erasure directly by reading, copying, or deleting your local files.
California. For users in California, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA) grants rights such as the right to know, delete, correct, and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. PulsarOS does not collect, sell, or share personal information through the Software or the Website, so these obligations are satisfied by design.
For further detail, see the PulsarVoice Privacy Policy, available on the Website, which is incorporated into this Agreement by reference. If you have a privacy question, contact us at [privacy@pulsaros.ca].
Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with the Acceptable Use Policy and the Privacy Policy, is the entire agreement between you and PulsarOS regarding the Software and the Website, and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings on that subject.
Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
No waiver. A failure by PulsarOS to enforce any provision of this Agreement is not a waiver of its right to do so later.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this Agreement or any of your rights under it without the prior written consent of PulsarOS. PulsarOS may assign this Agreement freely.
Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.
PulsarOS may update this Agreement from time to time. When we make changes, we will revise the effective date at the top of this document and post the updated Agreement on the Website. Changes apply to your use of the Software and the Website from the new effective date. If you continue to use the Software or the Website after the updated Agreement takes effect, you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree to the updated terms, you should stop using the Software and the Website.
If you have any questions about this Agreement, you can contact us at:
PulsarOS Intelligence Inc.
[REGISTERED ADDRESS]
Legal inquiries: [legal@pulsaros.ca]
Privacy inquiries: [privacy@pulsaros.ca]
Website: voice.pulsaros.ca