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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 Moonshot AI's open-source audio foundation model. A single 7B model handles speech recognition, audio understanding, audio generation, and end-to-end voice conversation. The official code targets Linux, so this guide walks Windows users through the setup paths that actually work reliably in 2026 — WSL2, Docker, and the
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/