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Risper v0.1.0

12 Jun 07:02
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Local-first Hebrew dictation for macOS. Hold a key, speak Hebrew, release, and the transcript is inserted into whatever app you were typing in. Speech recognition runs locally with whisper.cpp — no cloud ASR, no transcript upload.

Install (no developer tools needed)

  1. Download Risper-offline-arm64.dmg below and open it.
  2. Drag Risper.app to Applications.
  3. Launch /Applications/Risper.app.
  4. First launch is blocked because the app is not notarized. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, find the message that Risper was blocked, and click Open Anyway. Confirm, then launch again.
  5. Grant Microphone permission when prompted.
  6. Grant Accessibility permission in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility, then quit and relaunch Risper.

Requirements

  • Apple Silicon Mac (arm64)
  • macOS 26 or newer

What's in the DMG

A self-contained Risper.app bundling whisper-server, the required whisper.cpp dylibs, and the Ivrit.ai Hebrew model. No source checkout, Xcode, Homebrew, or separate model download required.

Notes

  • This build is locally signed but not Developer ID-signed or notarized, so the one-time "Open Anyway" step above is expected.
  • Runtime audio processing is local-only; the app talks to whisper-server over 127.0.0.1. Temporary audio lives under ~/Library/Caches/Risper/recordings/ and is deleted after transcription.

Licenses

Risper is MIT-licensed. It bundles whisper.cpp (MIT) and the Ivrit.ai whisper-large-v3-turbo-ggml model (Apache-2.0); see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.

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