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whisper-large

whisper-large is an open-weight audio or speech model from mlx-community, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

Audio mlx-community 1 variants 33k downloads/mo
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About

What whisper-large is

Use with mlx-whisper

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makermlx-community
TypeAudio & music
Variants1
Runs withmlx
Released2024-01-07
Popularity33k downloads / month
Likes105
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How audio & music work

Audio or textinputAudio modelrecognise / synthesiseText or audiooutputSpeech-to-text turns audio into text; text-to-speech and music models turn text into audio.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
whisper-large-v3-mlxMLXWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys mlx-community-whisper-large for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (mlx-community-whisper-large below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="mlx-community-whisper-large" -F file=@audio.mp3

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

mlx whisper automatic-speech-recognition

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under mit — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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