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nb-whisper-small-mlx
FredrikKarlssonSpeech/nb-whisper-small-mlx
nb-whisper-small-mlx is a automatic speech recognition model from FredrikKarlssonSpeech. Use it when you need speech turned into text. It is set up for mlx. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.
MLX conversion of NbAiLab/nb-whisper-small for fast inference on Apple Silicon via mlx-whisper.
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At a glance
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- mlx
- License
- apache-2.0
- Model type
- whisper
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Sep 2, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 2, 2026
- SHA
- b175b02c
Base models
Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
nb-whisper-small (MLX, float16)
MLX conversion of NbAiLab/nb-whisper-small for fast inference on Apple Silicon via mlx-whisper.
Converted with mlx-examples/whisper/convert.py at float16 precision.
Usage
pip install mlx-whisper
mlx_whisper audio_file.mp3 --model FredrikKarlssonSpeech/nb-whisper-small-mlx
import mlx_whisper
result = mlx_whisper.transcribe("audio_file.mp3", path_or_hf_repo="FredrikKarlssonSpeech/nb-whisper-small-mlx")
print(result["text"])
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- mlx
- Type
- whisper
- License
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- nb, no
- Created
- Sep 2, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 2, 2026