speech-to-text

datasette-lite, microsoft, mlx, prince-canuma, python, speech-to-text, uv

microsoft/VibeVoice

Simon Willison / April 27, 2026

microsoft/VibeVoice
VibeVoice is Microsoft’s Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model.
Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 but I hadn’t tried it until today. Here’s a one…

ai, gemma, generative-ai, LLMs, mlx, python, speech-to-text, uv

Gemma 4 audio with MLX

Simon Willison / April 12, 2026

Thanks to a tip from Rahim Nathwani, here’s a uv run recipe for transcribing an audio file on macOS using the 10.28 GB Gemma 4 E2B model with MLX and mlx-vlm:
uv run –python 3.13 –with mlx_vlm –with torchvision –with gradio \
mlx_vlm.generat…