LibraxisAI/whisper-small-mlx-q8

Whisper Small - MLX Q8 Quantized

8-bit quantized version of OpenAI's Whisper Small, optimized for Apple Silicon with MLX.

Model Details

Property	Value
Original Model	openai/whisper-small
Parameters	~244M
Quantization	INT8 (Q8)
Size	~300MB

Other Whisper Models

Model	Size	Link
small (this)	~300MB	-
medium	~800MB	LibraxisAI/whisper-medium-mlx-q8
large-v3	~1.6GB	LibraxisAI/whisper-large-v3-mlx-q8
large-v3-turbo	~900MB	LibraxisAI/whisper-large-v3-turbo-mlx-q8

Usage

import mlx_whisper

result = mlx_whisper.transcribe(
    "audio.wav",
    path_or_hf_repo="LibraxisAI/whisper-small-mlx-q8"
)
print(result["text"])

Hardware Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4)
• Minimum 8GB RAM

License

MIT - inherited from OpenAI Whisper.

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Converted by LibraxisAI using mlx-whisper