wersper

Private, self-owned Wispr Flow. Hold Right ⌥, speak, release — the transcription is pasted at your cursor. Everything runs locally on your Mac (Whisper large-v3-turbo via MLX on the GPU). No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry.

Run

uv run wersper.py

First run downloads the model (~1.6GB from Hugging Face) and installs deps.

macOS permissions (one-time)

Grant your terminal app both of these in System Settings → Privacy & Security:

• Microphone — to record you
• Accessibility — to paste into other apps (simulated ⌘V)

Self-check

uv run wersper.py --check

Notes

• Pasting overwrites your clipboard with the transcription.
• To change the hotkey or model, edit the constants at the top of wersper.py.