Community Q8 conversion of Edge0/ARK-ASR-0.6B, prepared for a draft Hex integration. No retraining. Not affiliated with the original authors, and not a canonical handy-computer artifact. Requires an ARK-enabled runtime. Stock llama.cpp, whisper.cpp and released transcribe-cpp 0.2.4 cannot load it. Use the candidate runtime at revision 19f301609c06126e5071d1de5acdd95c714eec05. ark-asr-0.6b-Q80.gguf: 1,372,881,664 bytes. SHA-256: ceca6bacd9cab3b52892de6703562aeeb62dc8a4b14aab0b020706637dd127dc. The 0.6B name describes the decoder; the full model also contains the audio encoder and adapter. Q8 linear weights, F16 tied embedding/output matrix and convolutions, F32 norms/biases/frontend tensors.…