We started Serenade nearly three years ago with the goal of making programming accessible to everyone. Since then, we've been blown away by the support of the Serenade community and what developers have coded with voice.

Our vision has always been to ensure that Serenade is a viable long-term solution for anyone who needs it. To that end, one request from the community has been louder, clearer, and more consistent than any other: to open up the product and enable everyone to contribute to Serenade's mission. Today, we're excited to do just that. Serenade is now fully open-source.

We've released a new GitHub repository containing all of the code that's used to build Serenade. This repository includes our client application, online services (like our speech engine and code engine), machine learning models, and offline model training pipelines. You'll also find instructions for building and modifying Serenade yourself, as well as documentation describing how our systems work. Serenade is licensed under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, so you to use and modify the code freely.

We're looking forward to accepting contributions from the community. We've published a brief Contributing Guide that describes our process. In short, before opening any Pull Requests, just be sure to get the sign-off of someone from the Serenade core team to make sure that we're all aligned on changes to the Serenade experience. And, by centralizing on GitHub Issues, rather than solely our Discord community, everyone will have more visibility into changes and the status of reports.

By open-sourcing the Serenade codebase and models, we're affirming our commitment to making Serenade freely available to everyone for the long-term. Involving the community more deeply in the ongoing development of Serenade is an important next step in the evolution of the platform, and it's one that we're excited to make together.