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Feb 15, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Qwen3‑ASR Runs Natively on Apple Silicon via MLX for Full‑Speed Speech Recognition

A developer has re‑implemented the state‑of‑the‑art Qwen3‑ASR model in MLX, enabling native execution on Apple M1‑M4 chips with real‑time factors as low as 0.08, 4‑bit quantization speedups of 4.7×, multilingual support for 52 languages, and features such as word‑level timestamps and streaming transcription.

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Qwen3‑ASR Runs Natively on Apple Silicon via MLX for Full‑Speed Speech Recognition
Old Zhang's AI Learning
Old Zhang's AI Learning
Jan 30, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Qwen3-ASR: Open‑Source Speech Recognition Supporting 52 Languages and Dialects, Outperforming Whisper

The Qwen3‑ASR series, now open‑sourced by Alibaba, offers three models (1.7B, 0.6B, and a 0.6B forced aligner) that cover 52 languages and 22 Chinese dialects, support streaming and offline inference, achieve an RTF of 0.064 with 2000× realtime throughput, handle singing with background music, and provide detailed deployment guides, benchmarks, and comparisons with other ASR solutions.

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Qwen3-ASR: Open‑Source Speech Recognition Supporting 52 Languages and Dialects, Outperforming Whisper