MLX Community · First MLX build 25 Oct 2026
ACE-Step-1.5-text-encoder
MLX
Audio apache-2.0
A 596M parameter text to audio model, with one MLX build at bf16.
- Parameters
- 596M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- bf16 ACE-Step-1.5-text-encoder-bf16
- Memory needed
- 4 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 1.2 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 158 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text to audio Audio
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 4 GB at bf16
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Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
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/ACE-Step-1.5-text-encoder-bf16MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| ACE-Step-1.5-text-encoder-bf16 | bf16 | 1.2 GB | 4 GB | 158 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.