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Download and install

Two builds, same program. Pick whichever suits the machine.

Updated 9 September 2026 · Vitalii Yemets

Installer

Puts the program in a folder of your choosing, makes a shortcut and an uninstall entry. It can also download a recognition model during the installation, which saves doing it on first run.

holdtotype-setup.exe
holdtotype-setup.exe -silent -dir "C:\Apps\HoldToType" -model small   # silent install, with a folder and a model:
holdtotype-setup.exe -uninstall -silent   # uninstall without questions:

Portable

Unpack holdtotype-portable.zip anywhere, including a USB stick, and run holdtotype.exe. Nothing is written outside that folder and no administrator rights are needed.

What it needs

Windows 10 or 11, x64, a microphone, and about a gigabyte of disk for a model. No graphics card is needed: everything runs on the processor.

The warning from Windows

Not signed yet. The builds are not code-signed, so Windows will warn about an unknown publisher. Until a certificate is in place, every release publishes the SHA-256 of both files and the program refuses an update whose hash does not match. Signing is planned, and so is publishing through winget and the Microsoft Store. Check a download against the releases page in the meantime.

Work is under way to publish HoldToType in the Microsoft Store. A Store build is signed, and the warning goes away with it.

Windows warns once before the first launch because the build is not signed yet: why, and how to check the file against its SHA-256.

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