Installation ​

Whisper runs on macOS (both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs). Installation takes about 30 seconds.

Install Whisper ​

Open the Terminal app on your Mac. You can find it by pressing Cmd + Space and typing "Terminal."

We recommend Hyper

Whisper was designed to look its best in Hyper, a free terminal app. The colors, ASCII art, and overall experience are tuned for it. Download it at hyper.is, install it, and use it instead of the built-in Terminal. Totally optional though. Any terminal works.

Once it's open, paste this command and press Enter:

bash
curl -fsSL https://pub-2231a9b07c4c4bd69d1ccd232a4fa337.r2.dev/releases/install.sh | bash

You'll see output like this:

Detected platform: darwin-arm64
Fetching latest release info...
Latest version: v0.5.0
Downloading whisper-darwin-arm64...
Verifying checksum... OK
Installing to ~/.local/bin/whisper...
Installation complete! Run 'whisper' to get started.

After Installing ​

Close your Terminal window and open a new one. This makes sure your system can find the whisper command.

Then verify it worked by typing:

bash
whisper --version

You should see a version number like 0.5.0. If you see that, you're all set.

What just happened?

The install command downloaded the Whisper program and saved it to a folder on your Mac called ~/.local/bin/. It also made sure your Terminal knows where to find it. That's it. Nothing else was changed on your computer.

Troubleshooting ​

"command not found" after installing?

Make sure you opened a new Terminal window after installing. If it still doesn't work, run this and try again:

bash
source ~/.zshrc

Still stuck?

Check that the file was actually installed:

bash
ls ~/.local/bin/whisper

If the file is there but the command still isn't found, your Terminal's PATH might need updating. Run this once:

bash
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

Next Step ​

Now that Whisper is installed, you need to connect it to your account. Head to Setup.