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)
- Download
Risper-offline-arm64.dmgbelow and open it. - Drag Risper.app to Applications.
- Launch
/Applications/Risper.app. - 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.
- Grant Microphone permission when prompted.
- 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-serverover127.0.0.1. 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.