Running Kimi-Audio on Mac: A Practical 2026 Guide
Quick answer. Kimi-Audio 7B runs on Apple Silicon Macs via MLX-LM for ASR, but speech generation still depends on CUDA-only kernels — pair it with kokoro-tts or parler-tts for Mac TTS. Needs ~20 GB unified RAM, Python 3.11, and HF transformers from main. As of May 2026, no first-party MLX/