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whisper-large-v3-4bit

mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-4bit
Speech recognition · mlx-audio-plus
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
1.5B
Weights (est.)
≈ 877 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-large-v3 (finetune)
Vendor
OpenAI · gpt-oss
Task
Speech recognition
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
646 in the last 30 days · 2.6K 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-large-v3

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
whisper-large-v3-4bit (this one) 4-bit ≈ 877 MB 8 GB+ 646
whisper-large-v3-8bit 8-bit ≈ 1.6 GB 8 GB+ 171
whisper-large-v3-fp16 fp16 ≈ 3.1 GB 8 GB+ 305