According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-09, Mlx Whisper has 4,830 downloads and 1 stars — ranked #1,943 of 5,078 AI skills overall, and #190 of 512 in Design & Media.

Installs

281

Downloads

4.8K

Stars

Overall Rank

#1,943

Top 39% overall · Top 38% in Design & Media

Platform	Installs	Downloads	Stars	Comments
ClawHub ↗	161	4.6K	1	-
SkillHub ↗	281	4.8K	1	—

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What this skill does

This skill transcribes audio locally with MLX Whisper on Apple Silicon Macs, without an API key. It can produce TXT or SRT output, accept a language hint, or translate speech into English. Models download to a local cache on first use. The card notes that the dependency version is unpinned and recommends an isolated environment; model caches use local storage.

Profile published 2026-10-27

What you can do with it

Transcribe meeting recordings to text
Generate SRT subtitles for videos
Translate foreign audio to English text
Fully offline transcription without API keys

When to use it

Fast local transcription on an Apple Silicon Mac
Sensitive audio that should not leave the machine
Batch subtitle generation

Example prompts

Generated from the skill’s documentation as examples; not results of actual runs.

Transcribe meeting.mp3 to txt

Generate SRT subtitles for video.mp4

Transcribe this Chinese recording with large-v3-turbo

Monthly Trend

Downloads4.8K

Stars1

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Month	Downloads	MoM	Stars
2026-09	4.8K	—	1
2026-08	4.6K	+2.2%	1
2026-07	4.5K	+5.5%	1
2026-06	4.2K	+3.1%	1
2026-05	4.1K	—	1
2026-03	3.6K	—	1

SKILL.md (original)

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---
name: mlx-whisper
version: 1.0.0
description: Local speech-to-text with MLX Whisper (Apple Silicon optimized, no API key).
homepage: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples/tree/main/whisper
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"🍎","requires":{"bins":["mlx_whisper"]},"install":[{"id":"pip","kind":"pip","package":"mlx-whisper","bins":["mlx_whisper"],"label":"Install mlx-whisper (pip)"}]}}
---

# MLX Whisper

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Local speech-to-text using Apple MLX, optimized for Apple Silicon Macs.

## Quick Start

```bash
mlx_whisper /path/to/audio.mp3 --model mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo
```

## Common Usage

```bash
# Transcribe to text file
mlx_whisper audio.m4a -f txt -o ./output

# Transcribe with language hint
mlx_whisper audio.mp3 --language en --model mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo

# Generate subtitles (SRT)
mlx_whisper video.mp4 -f srt -o ./subs

# Translate to English
mlx_whisper foreign.mp3 --task translate
```

## Models (download on first use)

| Model | Size | Speed | Quality |
|-------|------|-------|---------|
| mlx-community/whisper-tiny | ~75MB | Fastest | Basic |
| mlx-community/whisper-base | ~140MB | Fast | Good |
| mlx-community/whisper-small | ~470MB | Medium | Better |
| mlx-community/whisper-medium | ~1.5GB | Slower | Great |
| mlx-community/whisper-large-v3 | ~3GB | Slowest | Best |
| mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo | ~1.6GB | Fast | Excellent (Recommended) |

## Notes

- Requires Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4)
- Models cache to `~/.cache/huggingface/`
- Default model is `mlx-community/whisper-tiny`; use `--model mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo` for best results