FermionResearch · First MLX build 16 Oct 2026

Phonon-2

MLX Audio cc-by-4.0

A 99M parameter speech recognition model from FermionResearch, with one MLX build.

Hugging Face
Parameters
99M
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
Unstated
Phonon-2
Memory needed
3 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
350 MB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
324
This build, last 30 days
Task
Speech recognition
Audio
MLX builds
1
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.

Run it

Terminal · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/Phonon-2

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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Phonon-2 Unstated 350 MB 3 GB 324

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.