Instructions to use runanywhere/whisper_small_4bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use runanywhere/whisper_small_4bit with MLX:
# Download the model from the Hub pip install huggingface_hub[hf_xet] huggingface-cli download --local-dir whisper_small_4bit runanywhere/whisper_small_4bit
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
metadata
license: mit
tags:
- mlx
- 4bit
- whisper
- stt
- metalrt
- apple-silicon
Whisper Small — MLX 4-bit Quantized
Custom MLX 4-bit quantization of OpenAI Whisper Small optimized for MetalRT GPU inference on Apple Silicon.
Usage
Used by RCLI with the MetalRT engine for speech-to-text:
rcli setup # select MetalRT or Both engines
Note: Whisper Small is in GPU beta. Whisper Tiny is recommended for production use.
License
Model weights: MIT (OpenAI) MetalRT engine: Proprietary (RunAnywhere, Inc.)