Model reference · open weights
whisperk-coreml is an open-weight audio or speech model from argmaxinc, 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.
About
WhisperKit Repo WhisperKit is part of Argmax OSS, an On-device Speech AI SDK for Apple Silicon: https://github.com/argmaxinc/argmax-oss-swift Paper Check out the WhisperKit paper and presentation from ICML 2025: https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/47854 Pro For real-time transcription with speakers and custom vocabulary, check out Argmax Pro SDK: https://www.argmaxinc.com/blog/argmax-sdk-2
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | argmaxinc |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | whisperkit |
| Released | 2024-02-28 |
| Popularity | 11.6M downloads / month |
| Likes | 204 |
| Licence | Open weights |
How it works
Variants
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.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| whisperkit-coreml | — | BF16 | — | — | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys whisperk-coreml for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (whisperk-coreml 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="whisperk-coreml" -F file=@audio.mp3
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Licence
Open weights under mit — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗