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Arabic-First
عربي أولاً
Explicit Arabic mode (-l ar), auto-detect with opt-in two-pass preflight for short clips, and vocabulary packs for Khaleeji / Shami / MSA biasing. One language per recording — whisper.cpp does not code-switch.
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Runs Locally
يعمل على جهازك
whisper.cpp with Metal GPU on Apple Silicon. Your voice never touches a server — no cloud, no API keys, no telemetry.
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Press-to-Talk
اضغط وتكلّم
Hold a hotkey, speak, release. Transcript is typed directly where your cursor is — Slack, Xcode, Messages, anywhere.
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10 Bundled Dialect Packs
١٠ حزم لهجات جاهزة
Khaleeji, Shami, Saudi places, Saudi government, medical Arabic, tech bilingual, MSA business, GCC brands, agency, Islamic terms. Multi-select with priority ordering — packs are fed to whisper as decoder bias, not find-and-replace.
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Correction Memory
ذاكرة التصحيح
Correct a transcript once, and Lisan learns. Right-click any history entry → edit what it should have said → proposed word substitutions get saved to your personal lexicon, app-scoped or global, and bias every future dictation.
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Bilingual Cleanup
تنظيف ثنائي اللغة
Arabic chunks run through a dedicated normalizer + punctuator (harakat, tatweel, alef/yeh variants, Arabic comma/question mark). English chunks use a rule-based cleanup. No LLM in the loop — fully local, rule-governed.
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Two-Pass + Segmented Auto
كشف لغة دقيق ومقسّم
Auto mode adds opt-in `-dl` preflight to fix whisper's English bias on short Arabic clips. Segmented mode splits long recordings on silence and detects language per segment — the closest honest thing to phrase-level code-switch (whisper.cpp does not code-switch word-by-word).
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Four Model Sizes
أربعة نماذج للاختيار
Tiny (74MB) · Base (141MB) · Small (465MB, recommended for Arabic) · Medium (1.5GB). Downloaded on demand from the in-app Model picker, size-verified, stored locally. Switch any time.
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App-Specific Profiles
ملفات لكل تطبيق
Terminal / iTerm / VS Code / Claude / ChatGPT → passthrough (dictated text goes in raw). Notes / Obsidian → long-form structure. Messages / WhatsApp / Telegram → chat tone. Sensible defaults, fully overridable.
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Local History, You Control
سجل محلي تتحكم به
Raw + cleaned transcripts kept in a 0600 owner-only file, excluded from iCloud/Time Machine backup. Retention window is user-configurable; tightening it prunes old entries immediately on disk. Toggle the whole thing off for session-only memory.
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Press-to-Talk, Anywhere
اضغط وتكلّم — في أي تطبيق
Hold Option, speak, release. CGEvent typing for most apps, Accessibility for native fields, clipboard-paste for terminals — automatic fallback picks what actually works per bundle ID.
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Zero Subscription, MIT
بدون اشتراك · رخصة MIT
No account, no usage caps, no telemetry, no opt-out because there's nothing to opt out of. Fork it, port it, modify it. The only outbound HTTP is the model download to Hugging Face when you click Download.