Install

Installation guide

Current version 0.3.2. Everything happens in Terminal: one command, then two or three questions.

Before you start

Mac: Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later.
Memory: At least 16 GB of memory. The two models take about 8 GB once loaded, and a Mac with 8 GB stops responding; with too little memory the installer stops before downloading anything.
Disk space: About 8 GB: two models totaling roughly 7 GB, plus a few hundred MB of Python packages.
Network: Needed only during installation, to download Trie, Python packages, and the models. Dictation itself works offline.
Privileges: No administrator password is required.

Open Terminal

Press Command + Space, type Terminal, and press Return.
Paste this command and press Return
```
curl -fsSL https://trie.ai/install.sh | sh
```
The script checks your system, downloads Trie and verifies it (both the file checksum and the developer signature must match, or it stops), installs it into Applications, and creates a separate Python environment.
Answer the prompts

If uv (the tool used to create the Python environment) is not installed, the script asks whether to install it.

It then asks whether to download the two models, about 7 GB. Answer y and wait, or skip and run the same command again later.
Allow three permissions

Trie opens when installation finishes. On first use macOS asks for the three permissions below; allow all of them. If you miss a prompt, turn it on in System Settings → Privacy & Security. The installer's own messages are currently in Chinese.

Microphone

To hear you.

Accessibility

To paste text into the active text field.

Input Monitoring

To detect a tap of the right Command key on its own.
Try it

Click into any text field, tap the right Command key (⌘) on its own, say a sentence, and tap it again. The text is pasted into the field.

Slow model download: The models come from huggingface.co. If it is hard to reach, set a mirror before running the install command: export HF_ENDPOINT=mirror-url. An interrupted download resumes when you run the command again.
Overlay says unavailable: Usually the models are not downloaded yet, or microphone access was not allowed. Running the install command again rechecks the models.
Right Command does nothing: Check that Trie is enabled under Accessibility and Input Monitoring, then quit and reopen Trie.
Why no direct download: Trie is signed with an Apple Developer ID; notarization is still being processed by Apple. Until it completes, macOS blocks the app when it is downloaded from a browser, so installation is offered from the command line only.
Upgrade: Run the same install command again. Models and personal settings are kept, and permissions do not need to be granted again.
Uninstall: curl -fsSL https://trie.ai/install.sh | sh -s -- --uninstall
Logs: ~/Library/Logs/Trie/. Events and character counts only, never what you said.