Gemma 4 audio with MLX
BlogSimon WillisonApr 12, 2026
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One-line uv recipe to run Gemma 4 audio transcription locally on macOS with mlx-vlm. Demo has minor misheard words but runs fully offline. The 2026 local-first AI pattern in 8 commands.
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Sponsored by: Honeycomb — AI agents behave unpredictably. Get the context you need to debug what actually happened. Read the blog 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…
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