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Get Started Free →Local speech-to-text with MLX Whisper (Apple Silicon optimized, no API key).
.claude/skills/sundial-org-mlx-whisper/SKILL.md| Test case | Without → With | Effect | Δ tokens | Δ turns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| case-01 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -16% | 0% |
| case-03 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -16% | 0% |
| case-09 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -44% | 0% |
| case-16 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 31% | 0% |
| case-20 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -36% | 0% |
Local speech-to-text using Apple MLX, optimized for Apple Silicon Macs.
bashmlx_whisper /path/to/audio.mp3 --model mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo
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
| 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) |
~/.cache/huggingface/mlx-community/whisper-tiny; use --model mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo for best resultsOther measured skills in the registry, with their headline benchmark lift.