MLX Community · First MLX build 15 Jan 2026
whisper-small.en-asr
MLX
Audio apache-2.0
A 241M parameter speech recognition model, with 5 MLX builds, from 4-bit to fp16.
- Parameters
- 241M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- fp16 whisper-small.en-asr-fp16
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 481 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 179 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Speech recognition Audio
- MLX builds
- 5 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 3 GB at fp16
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/whisper-small.en-asr-fp16MLX builds
5 on mlx-community| whisper-small.en-asr-4bit | 4-bit | 139 MB | 3 GB | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| whisper-small.en-asr-5bit | 5-bit | 169 MB | 3 GB | 15 |
| whisper-small.en-asr-6bit | 6-bit | 199 MB | 3 GB | 27 |
| whisper-small.en-asr-8bit | 8-bit | 258 MB | 3 GB | 40 |
| whisper-small.en-asr-fp16 | fp16 | 481 MB | 3 GB | 179 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.