# mlx-community/whisper-small-asr-4bit

Model from Hugging Face for automatic speech recognition: mlx-community/whisper-small-asr-4bit · mlx audio

## Facts

- Type: Audio
- Task: automatic-speech-recognition
- Framework: mlx-audio
- License: apache-2.0 — Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/whisper-small-asr-4bit
- Hosting: hosted (8 files)
- Files: 8 hosted of 14 listed
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- Hosted here: 8 files, 142.1 MB
- Full repo upstream: 143.5 MB
- Recommended file: 139.1 MB · model.safetensors
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- Downloads: 78
- Stars: 0
- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for mlx-community/whisper-small-asr-4bit. Task: automatic speech recognition. Library: mlx audio. Languages: en, zh, de, es, ru, ko, fr, ja. Includes 4 model-card evaluation signals. Popularity signal at import: 78 downloads and 0 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: automatic-speech-recognition
- Library: mlx-audio
- Task categories: automatic-speech-recognition
- Languages: en, zh, de, es, ru, ko, fr, ja
- Model-index entries: whisper-small
- Evaluation signals: 4 model-card eval results
- File hints: 14 upstream file samples

## Evaluation Signals

- LibriSpeech (clean): Test WER = 3.432213777886737 (Automatic Speech Recognition)
- LibriSpeech (other): Test WER = 7.628304527060248 (Automatic Speech Recognition)
- Common Voice 11.0: Test WER = 87.3 (Automatic Speech Recognition)
- Common Voice 13.0: Wer = 125.69809089960707 (Automatic Speech Recognition)

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- README.md (3.1 KB)
- added_tokens.json (34 KB)
- config.json (2.6 KB)
- generation_config.json (3.8 KB)
- merges.txt (482 KB)
- model.safetensors (133 MB) LFS
- model.safetensors.index.json (55 KB)
- normalizer.json (51 KB)
- preprocessor_config.json (181 KB)
- special_tokens_map.json (2.1 KB)
- tokenizer.json (2.4 MB)

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-09-24T17:39:27.270Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
- Model-index metadata found for whisper-small.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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