From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.speechSubject: whisper-base-asr-fp16 Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 52f819cSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Automatic speech recognition model with 72M parameters. Safetensors weights, 148 MB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.
72M params 148 MB whisper-base-asr-fp16 safetensors permissive Facts Params 72M Size 148 MB Formats safetensors Task automatic speech recognition License Apache-2.0 permissive
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$ fw get mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16
# manifest sha256 7e093ba05c8d… · 148 MB · 14 files
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Size 148 MB
Weights 144 MB (safetensors)
Parameters 72M
Formats safetensors
Task automatic speech recognition
License Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files 14, each with a sha256
Publisher mlx-community
Added 2026-11-15
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This model was converted to MLX format from openai/whisper-base0.2.10 . Refer to the original model card for more details on the model.
Use with mlx-audio#
pip install -U mlx-audioCLI Example:#
python -m mlx_audio.stt.generate --model mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16 --audio "audio.wav"Python Example:#
from mlx_audio.stt.utils import load_model
from mlx_audio.stt.generate import generate_transcription
model = load_model("mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16")
transcription = generate_transcription(
model=model,
audio_path="path_to_audio.wav",
output_path="path_to_output.txt",
format="txt",
verbose=True,
)
print(transcription.text) Files 14 files · 148 MB Weights 144 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 14 files with their sha256 File Size sha256 .gitattributes 1.52 KB 11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361 README.md 2.84 KB 66306dd37237d4f797d17779b3a67a2e53a96167d156296722fa05ef3c8737f3 added_tokens.json 34.6 KB 9715fd2243b6f06a5858b5e32950d2853f73dd5bc201aafcf76f5082a2d8acd1 config.json 2.44 KB a399e8454551d7b55695893f34029f4f957016676656bcb4fd2f050f9ded86e1 generation_config.json 3.81 KB 444b3f636d2fff89dd9ecf549e2a085b61f7ff0fa0246d4628bac6a3b8cc9ba4 merges.txt 494 KB 2df2990a395e35e8dfbc7511e08c12d56018d8d04691e0133e5d63b21e154dc6 model.safetensors 144 MB 58bb36ff2c46cdba54676edf9625e0c5f374c13c231fdf1440be19432e3c8618 model.safetensors.index.json 15.8 KB fd03fe15b8cc7603648a08fbb368169f1118c63e1b4ddecece8161ee2165e833 normalizer.json 52.7 KB bf1c507dc8724ca9cf9903640dacfb69dae2f00edee4f21ceba106a7392f26dd preprocessor_config.json 185 KB 9b5cd03a36fbb8a627c64d98a5b5b126ead95a77720723944487311f0110b666 special_tokens_map.json 2.19 KB e67ae3a0aaa99abcd9f187138e12db1f65c16a14761c50ef10eef2c174a7a691 tokenizer.json 2.48 MB 27fc476bfe7f17299480be2273fc0608e4d5a99aba2ab5dec5374b4482d1a566 tokenizer_config.json 283 KB 2a4c4281cf9f51ac6ccc406fdc711a087afe6530f671fa7b80953edc498275ce vocab.json 836 KB 8f680bba319e01a653d2e8a5dbc17a9157179e0576e6ce74ce0c06356c6e24f9
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Upstream commit Date Contents 52f819c9c5 pinned now 2026-11-15 03:42 UTC 14 files · 148 MB
Use it fw
$ fw get mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16
# manifest sha256 7e093ba05c8d… · 148 MB · 14 files
$ fw verify ./whisper-base-asr-fp16 mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16fw.py Checks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16.json --dir ./whisper-base-asr-fp16
$ python3 fw.py verify ./whisper-base-asr-fp16 ./mlx-community__whisper-base-asr-fp16.jsonhf The Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16 --revision 52f819c9c5fa6874a2f14a97112951fc951aa253 --local-dir ./whisper-base-asr-fp16transformers Speech recognition with the transformers pipeline.
import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT" ] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import pipeline
asr = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16", revision="52f819c9c5fa6874a2f14a97112951fc951aa253")
print(asr("audio.wav")["text"])License Name Apache License 2.0 Id Apache-2.0 Class Permissive Redistribution yes Listing Hosted (signed) Decided License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15 Text in README.md Text sha256 66306dd37237d4f797d17779b3a67a2e53a96167d156296722fa05ef3c8737f3 Terms gate No extra terms beyond the license. Read the license text
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Provenance From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.speechSubject: whisper-base-asr-fp16 Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 52f819cSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Upstream mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16 Pinned commit 52f819c9c5fa6874a2f14a97112951fc951aa253 Manifest whisper-base-asr-fp16.json · .minisig Manifest sha256 7e093ba05c8dc2af3db2404d54a15e8090de5b2d9f5cd6524e4e8139068d741d Signature minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B Created 2026-11-15 03:42 UTC Generator freeweights-manifest/0.1.0 Takedowns None. How to verify
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm whisper-base-asr-fp16.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq
$ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download
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$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/whisper-base-asr-fp16Open in Freeweights Studio Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.
87M params 693 MB ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593 safetensors permissive Facts Params 87M Size 693 MB Formats safetensors Task audio classification License BSD-3-Clause permissive flip From: MIT <huggingface.co/MIT> Subject: ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593 speech 958 MB ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593-ONNX onnx permissive Facts Params not stated Size 958 MB Formats onnx Task audio classification License BSD-3-Clause permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/onnx-community> Subject: ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593-ONNX 601M params 2.57 GB Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b safetensors permissive Facts Params 601M Size 2.57 GB Formats safetensors Task text to speech License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: Edge0 <huggingface.co/Edge0> Subject: Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b 601M params 2.57 GB Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air safetensors permissive Facts Params 601M Size 2.57 GB Formats safetensors Task text to speech License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: Edge0 <huggingface.co/Edge0> Subject: Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air 104M params 831 MB audiobox-aesthetics safetensors permissive Facts Params 104M Size 831 MB Formats safetensors Task audio classification License CC-BY-4.0 permissive flip From: facebook <huggingface.co/facebook> Subject: audiobox-aesthetics 693M params 612 MB chatterbox-4bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 693M Size 612 MB Formats safetensors Task text to speech License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Subject: chatterbox-4bit
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