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whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 62103fcSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Automatic speech recognition model with 807M parameters. Safetensors weights, 864 MB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.

807M params864MBwhisper-large-v3-turbo-8bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams807MSize864 MBFormatssafetensorsTaskautomatic speech recognitionLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit
# manifest sha256 2b943014697f… · 864 MB · 5 files
$ fw verify ./whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit
From sourceHosted (signed)mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bitLast check: 2026-11-15 03:28 UTC
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Size
864 MB
Weights
864 MB (safetensors)
Parameters
807M
Formats
safetensors
Task
automatic speech recognition
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
5, each with a sha256
Publisher
mlx-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.speech
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Base model: openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo

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mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit#

This model was converted to MLX format from openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo using mlx-audio-plus version 0.1.4.

Use with mlx-audio-plus#

pip install -U mlx-audio-plus
Command line#
mlx_audio.stt --model mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit --audio audio.mp3
Python#
from mlx_audio.stt import transcribe

result = transcribe(
    audio="audio.mp3",
    model="mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit",
)
print(result["text"])

Files

5 files · 864 MBWeights 864 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
README.md849 B011c6fd21d6c446a911b27bb4f7195117f55de9bb2c6471fcad086b7797bff7b
config.json341 Bf79a081378ac52606707abdfdae4a9cc41410f47ffc2ad2cd582dc8cc8e29e6f
model.safetensors864 MB1dffa280543756dcdd5324250c811c2a1ba8654c363d7d0b1a5da2b1563629df
multilingual.tiktoken817 KBb34b360dbb493e781e479794586d661700670d65564001f23024971d1f2fa126
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
62103fc276 pinned now2026-11-15 03:28 UTC5 files · 864 MB

Use it

$ fw get mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit
# manifest sha256 2b943014697f… · 864 MB · 5 files
$ fw verify ./whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit.json --dir ./whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit ./mlx-community__whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit --revision 62103fc276a35fdc76e318f314d8ff47987fba89 --local-dir ./whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit
transformersSpeech 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-large-v3-turbo-8bit", revision="62103fc276a35fdc76e318f314d8ff47987fba89") print(asr("audio.wav")["text"])
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License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
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Decided
License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
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README.md
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Provenance

From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.speechSubject: whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 62103fcSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit
Pinned commit
62103fc276a35fdc76e318f314d8ff47987fba89
Manifest
whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
2b943014697fb3c2414636c08f6438e254d5cadbaba96efc7548e17af3b9fe5a
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 03:28 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

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Parent

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Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-8bit

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