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whisper-base.en-fp16

mlx-community/whisper-base.en-fp16
Speech recognition · mlx-audio-plus
fp16 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
72M
Weights (est.)
≈ 144 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.en (finetune)
Vendor
OpenAI · gpt-oss
Task
Speech recognition
Quantisation
fp16
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
27 in the last 30 days · 310 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.en

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
whisper-base.en-4bit 4-bit ≈ 42 MB 8 GB+ 33
whisper-base.en-8bit 8-bit ≈ 77 MB 8 GB+ 20
whisper-base.en-fp16 (this one) fp16 ≈ 144 MB 8 GB+ 27