MLX Community · First MLX build 30 May 2026

belle-whisper-large-v3-zh-punct

MLX Audio apache-2.0

A 1.5B parameter speech recognition model, with 2 MLX builds, from 8-bit to fp16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
1.5B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
fp16
belle-whisper-large-v3-zh-punct-fp16
Memory needed
6 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
3.1 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
55
This build, last 30 days
Task
Speech recognition
Audio
MLX builds
2
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/belle-whisper-large-v3-zh-punct-fp16

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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belle-whisper-large-v3-zh-punct-8bit 8-bit 1.7 GB 4 GB 28
belle-whisper-large-v3-zh-punct-fp16 fp16 3.1 GB 6 GB 55

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