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Kimi-Audio is Moonshot AI's state-of-the-art 7B parameter audio foundation model capable of speech recognition, audio generation, and multimodal conversations. System Requirements Hardware * GPU: Minimum NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM) / Recommended RTX 6000 Ada (48GB VRAM)16 * RAM: 64GB DDR4 minimum * Storage: 100GB+ free SSD space (for models and
Kimi-Audio is an open-source audio foundation model capable of speech recognition, audio generation, and conversational AI tasks. While primarily designed for Linux environments, this guide provides detailed instructions for Windows users to leverage its capabilities through multiple methods. I. System Requirements 1. Hardware Specifications * GPU: NVIDIA GPU with ≥24GB VRAM
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/