Granting Permissions (Microphone, Accessibility, and Automation)

EnviousWispr listens to your microphone and types into other apps, so macOS asks you to grant it permissions first. Microphone is required. Accessibility is needed for a modifier key used on its own as a keybind, such as the default Right Option or Globe, and for pasting. Automation is needed only in rare cases. Setup asks for Microphone and Accessibility before the practice dictation at the end, so most people grant both there.

The Permissions tab of App Settings always shows the current status of each one. The Privacy tab beside it has the switches for usage data and crash reports. Those are EnviousWispr settings, not macOS permissions. See What Data Is Collected.

EnviousWispr can’t hear me: allow the microphone

This permission lets EnviousWispr hear your voice while you dictate. Setup asks for it. If you skipped the prompt, ask again from EnviousWispr:

1. Open App Settings > Permissions.
2. Under Microphone, click Request Access. If you already said no, this button opens System Settings for you.
3. In System Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone, switch EnviousWispr on.

You will know it worked when you hold your keybind and the meter on the recording bar moves as you speak. If it still stays flat, see Empty or Missing Transcription.

My keybind does nothing, or text is not pasting: allow Accessibility

This permission lets EnviousWispr recognize a modifier key used on its own as your keybind and place the finished text directly into the app you are working in. Setup offers a Grant button for it. Otherwise:

1. Open System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility.
2. Click + and add EnviousWispr from your Applications folder.
3. Make sure the switch beside it is on.

You will know it worked when your keybind starts a recording and your next dictation lands in the text box on its own.

Without this permission, a modifier key used on its own as a keybind, such as Right Option or Globe, does not respond. Other supported keybinds still start dictation, and EnviousWispr copies your text to the clipboard instead and tells you it has done so; you paste it yourself with Cmd+V. If the switch is on but nothing pastes, see Accessibility Permission Not Working.

macOS asks if EnviousWispr can control System Events

This is the Automation permission. It is a backup, requested only when the usual ways of pasting fail inside a particular app. Click OK to allow it. To change your answer later, open System Settings > Privacy & Security > Automation.

Declining is fine, because most apps never need it.

Does my keybind need a permission?

A modifier key used on its own, such as Right Option or Globe, needs Accessibility. Other supported recording keybinds can start dictation without it. Pasting the finished text into another app still needs Accessibility.