qwen-asr-cli

CLI for qwen-asr: CPU-only Qwen3-ASR speech-to-text in pure Rust.

Current benchmark results are published in the repository README and compare the CLI's Rust CPU backend with upstream C and MLX-based GPU baselines.

Install

cargo install qwen-asr-cli

# Recommended: enable native CPU SIMD tuning
RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" cargo install qwen-asr-cli

vDSP/Accelerate is auto-enabled on macOS via default features.

Download Model

qwen-asr download qwen3-asr-0.6b

Usage

# Transcribe a file
qwen-asr -d qwen3-asr-0.6b -i audio.wav

# Streaming mode
qwen-asr -d qwen3-asr-0.6b -i audio.wav --stream

# Live capture (macOS)
qwen-asr -d qwen3-asr-0.6b --live --stream --device "BlackHole 2ch"

# VAD live mode (macOS)
qwen-asr -d qwen3-asr-0.6b --live --vad --device "BlackHole 2ch"

# Forced alignment
qwen-asr -d qwen3-aligner-0.6b -i audio.wav --align "Hello world"

# All options
qwen-asr -h

See the project README for full documentation.

License

MIT