MLX Community · First MLX build 6 May 2025

csm-1b

MLX Audio apache-2.0

A 1.6B parameter text to speech model, with one MLX build at 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
1.6B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
8-bit
csm-1b-8bit
Memory needed
4 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
1.7 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
2.7K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text to speech
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/csm-1b-8bit

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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csm-1b-8bit 8-bit 1.7 GB 4 GB 2.7K

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