4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
72M
Weights (est.)
≈ 42 MB
Mac memory (est.)
8 GB+
Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.
Details
- Base model
- openai/whisper-base (finetune)
- Vendor
- OpenAI · gpt-oss
- Task
- Speech recognition
- Quantisation
- 4-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 79 in the last 30 days · 1.6K all time · 0 likes
- Published
- 2025-12-14 · updated 2025-12-15 (11mo ago)
- Tags
- mlx-audio-plus, whisper, speech-recognition, speech-to-text
Other MLX builds of openai/whisper-base
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| whisper-base-4bit (this one) | 4-bit | ≈ 42 MB | 8 GB+ | 79 |
| whisper-base-8bit | 8-bit | ≈ 77 MB | 8 GB+ | 27 |
| whisper-base-fp16 | fp16 | ≈ 144 MB | 8 GB+ | 34 |