From: argmaxinc <github.com/argmaxinc>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject:

WhisperKit

Release: v1.1.1 (2026-10-08)Commit: 1bbc57cLicense: MIT

Swift package and CLI for on-device speech recognition on Apple silicon.

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$ brew install whisperkit-cli

Overview Install Use with Freeweights License Provenance

Overview

Swift package and CLI for on-device speech recognition on Apple silicon.

Kind: speech
License: MIT
Language: Swift
Platforms: macOS, iOS
Latest release: v1.1.1 (2026-10-08)
Repository: argmaxinc/argmax-oss-swift

Topicsinferenceiosmacospyannoteqwen3-ttsspeaker-diarizationspeakerkitspeech-recognitionspeech-to-textswifttext-to-speechtransformers

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Install

$ brew install whisperkit-cli

$ brew install whisperkit-cli

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-15. The project's own instructions win when they differ: install docs

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Use with Freeweights

Run a catalog model

Download the weights from Freeweights first (HF_ENDPOINT or fw.py), then point the tool at the folder.

Catalog models it can run (189)

BUD-E-Whisper BUD-E-Whisper_V1.1 distil-large-v2 distil-large-v3 distil-large-v3.5 distil-large-v3.5-ct2 distil-large-v3.5-ONNX distil-medium.en distil-medium.en_timestamped distil-small.en distil-small.en distil-small.en_timestamped distil-whisper-large-v3_openvino_int8 granite-4.0-1b-speech-ONNX granite-speech-3.2-8b granite-speech-3.3-2b granite-speech-3.3-8b granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus granite-speech-5.0-2b granite-speech-5.0-2b-ONNX hubert-xlarge-ls960-ft kb-whisper-base kb-whisper-base-ONNX kb-whisper-large kb-whisper-large-ONNX kb-whisper-medium kb-whisper-medium-ONNX kb-whisper-small kb-whisper-small-ONNX kb-whisper-tiny kb-whisper-tiny-ONNX kotoba-whisper-bilingual-v1.0 kotoba-whisper-bilingual-v1.0-ONNX kotoba-whisper-v2.2 kotoba-whisper-v2.2-ONNX MiMo-V2.5-ASR MiMo-V2.5-ASR-MLX-8bit moonshine-base moonshine-base-ONNX moonshine-tiny moonshine-tiny-ONNX nb-whisper-base nb-whisper-base-ONNX nb-whisper-small nb-whisper-small-ONNX nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b parakeet-ctc-0.6b parakeet-ctc-0.6b-ONNX parakeet-tdt_ctc-0.6b-ja parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 parakeet-tdt-1.1b paza-Phi-4-multimodal-instruct paza-whisper-large-v3-turbo Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-onnx Qwen3-ASR-0.6B Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-4bit Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-8bit

and 129 more.

License

License: MIT
Class: Permissive

Read the license

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Provenance

From: argmaxinc <github.com/argmaxinc>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: WhisperKitRelease: v1.1.1 (2026-10-08)Commit: 1bbc57cLicense: MIT

Repository: argmaxinc/argmax-oss-swift
Pinned release: v1.1.1, 2026-10-08
Release commit: 1bbc57cb7fe6410248a685b1c5a3c6d56adc2ed4
Default branch: main 9f99b5cb6a907730543823ad271b82532782a899
Fetched: 2026-11-15
Takedowns: None.

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Get it

Install Project repository

Works with

189 catalog models. See the list