Awesome-openclaw-skills mlx-whisper

Local speech-to-text with MLX Whisper (Apple Silicon optimized, no API key).

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/mlx-whisper" ~/.claude/skills/sundial-org-awesome-openclaw-skills-mlx-whisper && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/mlx-whisper" ~/.openclaw/skills/sundial-org-awesome-openclaw-skills-mlx-whisper && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/mlx-whisper/SKILL.md

source content

MLX Whisper

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

Quick Start

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

Common Usage

# 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