From 8e4391ca215e07f80e2ead1f3487b17b54906007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Awni Hannun <awni@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 13:18:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] whisper nits (#1388)

---
 whisper/benchmark.py              | 6 ------
 whisper/mlx_whisper/transcribe.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/whisper/benchmark.py b/whisper/benchmark.py
index 8101e343..3f6a092e 100644
--- a/whisper/benchmark.py
+++ b/whisper/benchmark.py
@@ -11,12 +11,6 @@ audio_file = "mlx_whisper/assets/ls_test.flac"
 
 def parse_arguments():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Benchmark script.")
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--mlx-dir",
-        type=str,
-        default="mlx_models",
-        help="The folder of MLX models",
-    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--all",
         action="store_true",
diff --git a/whisper/mlx_whisper/transcribe.py b/whisper/mlx_whisper/transcribe.py
index e9c2751f..bced16a5 100644
--- a/whisper/mlx_whisper/transcribe.py
+++ b/whisper/mlx_whisper/transcribe.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class ModelHolder:
 def transcribe(
     audio: Union[str, np.ndarray, mx.array],
     *,
-    path_or_hf_repo: str = "mlx-community/whisper-tiny",
+    path_or_hf_repo: str = "mlx-community/whisper-turbo",
     verbose: Optional[bool] = None,
     temperature: Union[float, Tuple[float, ...]] = (0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0),
     compression_ratio_threshold: Optional[float] = 2.4,