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Okay, so, I had to look at the windows flow a bit more in-depth. Winget was a good tool but it's actually unmaintained and people have been reporting some possible malicious packages. So I redid the entire install script to not use winget anymore. It's much easier to install stuff on Linux, there the install script would have just done everything for you 😭 but no worries, it is what it is.

What you will need:

• Install the latest Python version here: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/. Python now offers the 'install manager', and they said this is how you will install Python from now on. So it's probably better to use the install manager, and install the latest 3.12.x version of Python from it. Add it to your PATH if there is a checkbox for it, otherwise it will be pretty much useless (it should just be checked by default but it is what it is).
• ffmpeg: ffmpeg is required for STT to work. On its own website, ffmpeg links to this website: https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/. Scroll down and download ffmpeg-release-full.7z. This is a guide that explains what to do with this zip file afterwards: https://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows. I'm sorry that ffmpeg is such a mess to install on windows but they don't provide an installer unfortunately.
• yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases. The latest as of writing is yt-dlp 2026.06.09, and the file is simply called yt-dlp.exe. Click on it in the list to download, then run the .exe to install yt-dlp on your computer.
• Pandoc: You can install pandoc from here: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases. The latest as of writing is pandoc-3.10-windows-x86_64.msi - it's also an installer that you just run to install pandoc.

Then you can run the install script provided on my codeberg repo. In Powershell (not cmd):

iwr https://codeberg.org/CritBase111/speech-to-text/raw/branch/main/install.ps1 | iex

The install script is very simple; it just sets up a folder called stt in C:\Users\YourUsername. Everything that STT sets up by itself stays within that stt\ folder. When stt is installed correctly, the installer script will tell you with the words "stt installed. Open a NEW terminal window and type: stt --help"

Open a new cmd or powershell, and simply run the command 'stt gui'. It will open the user interface in a new window, which is probably easier to use. I find that when I was on Windows I preferred user interfaces, and on Linux I prefer command-line tools lol.

The first time you actually start transcribing or translating a video, stt will automatically download the models. This happens automatically, you just have to wait. But it means the first transcription will take a bit more time to finish.

If you ever want to uninstall stt from your computer, run this in PowerShell:

# Windows (PowerShell)
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:Path.Replace("$HOME\stt\.venv\Scripts", ""), "User")
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $HOME\stt

ffmpeg, yt-dlp and pandoc are pretty nice tools to have on any computer. ffmpeg can convert and compress any video file. yt-dlp allows you to download videos from any website by just running 'yt-dlp https://link.com/' in the CMD, and pandoc can convert any text format to any other text format, so you can convert . So they are dependencies, but they are generally good tools to have. Python as well is pretty nice to have as a lot of open-source software uses python. You only install it once then most open-source software is available to you.