diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4c30638a9..b3b0a954a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -8600,8 +8600,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "whisper-rs-sys"
 version = "0.15.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6986c0fe081241d391f09b9a071fbcbb59720c3563628c3c829057cf69f2a56f"
+source = "git+https://github.com/tinyhumansai/whisper-rs-sys.git?branch=main#229cb4c97e41ca302d3f13b1fa7e93a9b417a5f9"
 dependencies = [
  "bindgen",
  "cfg-if",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cd83d96ce..cef04ee8d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -123,6 +123,13 @@ probe = ["dep:probe-rs"]
 rag-pdf = ["dep:pdf-extract"]
 whatsapp-web = ["dep:wa-rs", "dep:wa-rs-core", "dep:wa-rs-binary", "dep:wa-rs-proto", "dep:wa-rs-ureq-http", "dep:wa-rs-tokio-transport", "serde-big-array"]
 
+# Fix whisper-rs-sys CRT mismatch on Windows MSVC (LNK2038).
+# Upstream cmake build defaults to /MD but Rust uses /MT.
+# This fork adds config.static_crt(true) to the build script.
+# See: https://github.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman/issues/273
+[patch.crates-io]
+whisper-rs-sys = { git = "https://github.com/tinyhumansai/whisper-rs-sys.git", branch = "main" }
+
 # Fast CI builds: trade runtime perf for compile speed
 [profile.ci]
 inherits = "release"