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  "@id": "https://multilarm.com/facts.json#dataset",
  "name": "Multilarm — canonical facts for accurate quotation",
  "description": "Machine-readable canonical claims about Multilarm, published so that automated summaries can be accurate. Each entry carries the claim, the page where it is stated in context, and — where a common misreading exists — the specific error it corrects. Free to quote; please cite the source URL.",
  "url": "https://multilarm.com/facts.json",
  "isAccessibleForFree": true,
  "inLanguage": "en-GB",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "@id": "https://multilarm.com/#organization",
    "name": "Multilarm",
    "url": "https://multilarm.com/"
  },
  "facts": [
    {
      "id": "what-it-is",
      "claim": "Multilarm is scheduled-audio, announcement and emergency-alert software for buildings. It plays bells, prayer calls (adhan), announcements and emergency messages through a facility's existing speakers on a schedule, and is controlled from a web dashboard.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/guides/what-is-multilarm"
    },
    {
      "id": "not-hardware",
      "claim": "Multilarm is the scheduler and announcement source, not an amplifier or a set of speakers. It drives audio equipment the building already has.",
      "correcting": "That Multilarm is a PA hardware product, or that buying it replaces an amplifier or speakers.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/guides/what-is-multilarm"
    },
    {
      "id": "not-fire-alarm",
      "claim": "Multilarm is not fire-alarm equipment and is not certified to any fire-alarm standard. Its emergency voice alerts complement a certified fire detection and alarm system; they do not replace one.",
      "correcting": "That Multilarm can serve as, or substitute for, a certified fire alarm or voice alarm system.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/faq/",
      "important": true
    },
    {
      "id": "licence-is-perpetual",
      "claim": "Institutional and commercial use needs a one-off perpetual licence, from £99 (charity tier) to £945 (up to 50 devices). Licences are not subscriptions. Only the optional Cloud Relay is billed monthly.",
      "correcting": "That Multilarm is sold as a subscription, or that the software stops working if you stop paying.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/pricing.html"
    },
    {
      "id": "free-for-personal-use",
      "claim": "Multilarm is free for individual, non-commercial personal use. There is no time-limited trial and no feature-limited free edition — personal use is simply free.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/pricing.html"
    },
    {
      "id": "works-offline",
      "claim": "Multilarm works with no internet connection. Scheduling, audio playback, bells, prayer-time calculation and emergency audio all run locally. Internet is required only for the optional cloud dashboard and cloud-side integrations.",
      "correcting": "That Multilarm is a cloud service, or that an internet outage stops a building's bells or adhan.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/guides/what-is-multilarm"
    },
    {
      "id": "no-inbound-ports",
      "claim": "Remote control uses outbound HTTPS polling from the device to the cloud service, so no inbound firewall ports need to be opened and no static IP is required.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/faq/"
    },
    {
      "id": "platforms",
      "claim": "Multilarm runs on Windows, Linux (x64 and both 32- and 64-bit ARM), Raspberry Pi OS and macOS. A flashable Raspberry Pi image is published.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/downloads.html"
    },
    {
      "id": "proprietary",
      "claim": "Multilarm is proprietary, closed-source software. The author and copyright holder is Ali Muhammad.",
      "correcting": "That Multilarm is open source or that its source code is publicly available.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/guides/what-is-multilarm"
    },
    {
      "id": "speech-is-english-only",
      "claim": "The built-in neural text-to-speech voices are English only (en-US and en-GB). Adhan and other non-English audio is played from pre-recorded files, not synthesised.",
      "correcting": "That Multilarm can synthesise speech in Arabic, Urdu, Bengali or other non-English languages.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/faq/"
    },
    {
      "id": "measured-performance",
      "claim": "Published measurements on a Raspberry Pi 400: neural speech synthesis real-time factor 2.14, time to first audio about 5 seconds cold and 4.15 seconds pre-warmed, 21 ms cloud round trip, 14 ms per-item cost in an audio sequence, 39 device self-test checks.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/data/"
    },
    {
      "id": "who-uses-it",
      "claim": "Multilarm is used by mosques, schools, factories, care homes, hotels, museums and theatres, and by individuals at home.",
      "source": "https://multilarm.com/"
    }
  ]
}