MLX STT
Speech-To-Text/ASR/Transcribe with MLX (Apple Silicon) and GLM-ASR-Nano-2512 locally.
Free and Accurate. No api key required. No server required.
Requirements
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mlx: macOS with Apple Silicon - •
brew: used to install deps if not available
Installation
bash
bash ${baseDir}/install.sh
This script will use brew to install these cli tools if not available:
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ffmpeg: convert audio format when needed - •
uv: install python package and run python script - •
mlx_audio: do the real job
Usage
To transcribe an audio file, run the mlx-stt.py script:
bash
uv run ${baseDir}/mlx-stt.py <audio_file_path>
- •When first run, it will download model from Hugging Face, default:
mlx-community/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512-8bit, 2.5GB ish. - •The transcript result will be printed to stdout.