MLX Community · First MLX build 30 May 2026
belle-whisper-large-v3-zh
MLX
Audio apache-2.0
A 1.5B parameter speech recognition model, with 2 MLX builds, from 8-bit to fp16.
- Parameters
- 1.5B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit belle-whisper-large-v3-zh-8bit
- Memory needed
- 4 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 1.7 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 54 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Speech recognition Audio
- MLX builds
- 2 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 4 GB at 8-bit
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
32 GB
64 GB
128 GB
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/belle-whisper-large-v3-zh-8bitMLX builds
2 on mlx-community| belle-whisper-large-v3-zh-8bit | 8-bit | 1.7 GB | 4 GB | 54 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| belle-whisper-large-v3-zh-fp16 | fp16 | 3.1 GB | 6 GB | 25 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.