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whisper-small.en-asr-6bit

mlx-community/whisper-small.en-asr-6bit
Speech recognition · mlx-audio
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
241M
Weights (est.)
≈ 199 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
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Vendor
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Task
Speech recognition
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
22 in the last 30 days · 101 all time · 0 likes
Published
2026-01-15 · updated 2026-01-15 (10mo ago)
Languages
en
Tags
mlx-audio, whisper, audio, hf-asr-leaderboard, speech-to-text, speech-to-speech, speech, speech generation