---
library_name: mlx-audio-plus
license: apache-2.0
base_model:
- openai/whisper-large-v3
tags:
- mlx
- whisper
- speech-recognition
- speech-to-text
- stt
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
---

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

This model was converted to MLX format from [openai/whisper-large-v3](https://github.com/openai/whisper) using [mlx-audio-plus](https://github.com/DePasqualeOrg/mlx-audio-plus) version **0.1.4**.

## Use with mlx-audio-plus

```bash
pip install -U mlx-audio-plus
```

### Command line

```bash
mlx_audio.stt --model mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-8bit --audio audio.mp3
```

### Python

```python
from mlx_audio.stt import transcribe

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