MLX Community · First MLX build 8 Mar 2024

whisper-base.en

MLX

A model, with 5 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
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Not published
Quantisation
Unstated
whisper-base.en-mlx
Memory needed
— GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
—
Weights, estimated
Downloads
6.7K
This build, last 30 days
Task
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MLX builds
5
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Hugging Face does not list a weights size for this build, so there is no memory estimate.

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/whisper-base.en-mlx

MLX builds

5 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
whisper-base.en-mlx Unstated — — 6.7K
whisper-base.en-mlx-q4 4-bit — — 106
whisper-base.en-mlx-4bit 4-bit — — 54
whisper-base.en-mlx-fp32 fp32 — — 34
whisper-base.en-mlx-8bit 8-bit — — 33

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