diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index b58254dea..4a204ac3c 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -3768,6 +3768,17 @@ files = [
     {file = "monotonic-1.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3a55207bcfed53ddd5c5bae174524062935efed17792e9de2ad0205ce9ad63f7"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "more-itertools"
+version = "10.5.0"
+description = "More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "more-itertools-10.5.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:5482bfef7849c25dc3c6dd53a6173ae4795da2a41a80faea6700d9f5846c5da6"},
+    {file = "more_itertools-10.5.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:037b0d3203ce90cca8ab1defbbdac29d5f993fc20131f3664dc8d6acfa872aef"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "moviepy"
 version = "1.0.3"
@@ -4243,6 +4254,28 @@ typing-extensions = ">=4.11,<5"
 [package.extras]
 datalib = ["numpy (>=1)", "pandas (>=1.2.3)", "pandas-stubs (>=1.1.0.11)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "openai-whisper"
+version = "20240930"
+description = "Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "openai-whisper-20240930.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b7178e9c1615576807a300024f4daa6353f7e1a815dac5e38c33f1ef055dd2d2"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+more-itertools = "*"
+numba = "*"
+numpy = "*"
+tiktoken = "*"
+torch = "*"
+tqdm = "*"
+triton = {version = ">=2.0.0", markers = "platform_machine == \"x86_64\" and sys_platform == \"linux\" or sys_platform == \"linux2\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+dev = ["black", "flake8", "isort", "pytest", "scipy"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "opencv-python"
 version = "4.10.0.84"
@@ -8345,6 +8378,28 @@ torchhub = ["filelock", "huggingface-hub (>=0.14.1,<1.0)", "importlib-metadata",
 video = ["av (==9.2.0)", "decord (==0.6.0)"]
 vision = ["Pillow"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "triton"
+version = "3.1.0"
+description = "A language and compiler for custom Deep Learning operations"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+files = [
+    {file = "triton-3.1.0-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:6b0dd10a925263abbe9fa37dcde67a5e9b2383fc269fdf59f5657cac38c5d1d8"},
+    {file = "triton-3.1.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:0f34f6e7885d1bf0eaaf7ba875a5f0ce6f3c13ba98f9503651c1e6dc6757ed5c"},
+    {file = "triton-3.1.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:c8182f42fd8080a7d39d666814fa36c5e30cc00ea7eeeb1a2983dbb4c99a0fdc"},
+    {file = "triton-3.1.0-cp38-cp38-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:6dadaca7fc24de34e180271b5cf864c16755702e9f63a16f62df714a8099126a"},
+    {file = "triton-3.1.0-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:aafa9a20cd0d9fee523cd4504aa7131807a864cd77dcf6efe7e981f18b8c6c11"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+filelock = "*"
+
+[package.extras]
+build = ["cmake (>=3.20)", "lit"]
+tests = ["autopep8", "flake8", "isort", "llnl-hatchet", "numpy", "pytest", "scipy (>=1.7.1)"]
+tutorials = ["matplotlib", "pandas", "tabulate"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "twisted"
 version = "24.10.0"
@@ -9174,4 +9229,4 @@ testing = ["coverage[toml]", "zope.event", "zope.testing"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.10,<3.14"
-content-hash = "9a2eee9b8b5c894c3e6080044fb6942bd179602edf728c9f216b1c0cf4ba45ac"
+content-hash = "9b98c96a50451de3edfedc5627e895a74c84f6af3af535fee09a343806e3fbdf"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 97f9c1cd2..ce1c617b8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ llvmlite = "^0.43.0"
 ell-ai = "^0.0.14"
 pynput = "^1.7.7"
 multiprocessing-utils = "^0.4"
+openai-whisper = "^20240930"
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 filterwarnings = [
     # suppress warnings starting from "setuptools>=67.3"
diff --git a/scripts/postinstall.py b/scripts/postinstall.py
index 417c772f6..061f0c7aa 100755
--- a/scripts/postinstall.py
+++ b/scripts/postinstall.py
@@ -23,24 +23,6 @@ def install_detectron2() -> None:
         sys.exit(1)
 
 
-def install_whisper() -> None:
-    """Install Whisper from its GitHub repository."""
-    try:
-        subprocess.check_call(
-            [
-                sys.executable,
-                "-m",
-                "pip",
-                "install",
-                "git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git",
-                "--no-build-isolation",
-            ]
-        )
-    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
-        print(f"Error installing Whisper: {e}")
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-
 def install_dashboard() -> None:
     """Install dashboard dependencies based on the operating system."""
     original_directory = os.getcwd()
@@ -82,7 +64,6 @@ def main() -> None:
     """Main function to install dependencies."""
     try:
         install_detectron2()
-        install_whisper()
         install_dashboard()
     except Exception as e:
         print(f"Unhandled error: {e}")