diff --git a/Birders_Guide_Installer.sh b/Birders_Guide_Installer.sh
index 4f83f2d..d0db96e 100755
--- a/Birders_Guide_Installer.sh
+++ b/Birders_Guide_Installer.sh
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ SYSTEMD_MOUNT=$(echo ${RECS_DIR#/} | tr / -).mount
 ## VENV is the virtual environment where the the BirdNET python build is found,
 ## i.e, VENV is the virtual environment miniforge built for BirdNET.
 
-VENV=${my_dir}/miniforge/envs/birdnet
+VENV=${my_dir}/birdnet
 
 ################################################################################
 #---------------------------------- Testing -----------------------------------#
diff --git a/scripts/birdnet_analysis.sh b/scripts/birdnet_analysis.sh
index 92674bb..d8f32c5 100755
--- a/scripts/birdnet_analysis.sh
+++ b/scripts/birdnet_analysis.sh
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ run_analysis() {
 --overlap "${OVERLAP}" \
 --sensitivity "${SENSITIVITY}" \
 --min_conf "${CONFIDENCE}""
-      python3 analyze.py \
+      "${VENV}"/bin/python analyze.py \
         --i "${1}/${i}" \
         --o "${1}/${i}.csv" \
         --lat "${LATITUDE}" \
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ run_analysis() {
 --sensitivity "${SENSITIVITY}" \
 --min_conf "${CONFIDENCE}" \
 --custom_list "${CUSTOM_LIST}""
-      python3 analyze.py \
+      "${VENV}"/bin/python analyze.py \
         --i "${1}/${i}" \
         --o "${1}/${i}.csv" \
         --lat "${LATITUDE}" \
diff --git a/scripts/install_birdnet.sh b/scripts/install_birdnet.sh
index bd354cd..458f99c 100755
--- a/scripts/install_birdnet.sh
+++ b/scripts/install_birdnet.sh
@@ -47,8 +47,11 @@ install_deps() {
 
 install_birdnet() {
   cd ~/BirdNET-Pi || exit 1
+  echo "Establishing a python virtual environment"
+  python3 -m venv birdnet
+  source ./birdnet/bin/activate
   echo "Upgrading pip, wheel, and setuptools"
-  sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
+  pip3 install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
   if [ ! -f $(dirname ${my_dir})/tflite_runtime-2.6.0-cp37-none-linux_aarch64.whl ];then
     echo "Fetching the TFLite pre-built binaries"
     TFLITE_URL="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1dlEbugFDJXs-YDBCUC6WjADVtIttWxZA"
@@ -58,13 +61,13 @@ install_birdnet() {
     curl -Lb /tmp/cookie ${TF_COOKIE} -o tflite_runtime-2.6.0-cp37-none-linux_aarch64.whl
   fi
   echo "Installing the TFLite bin wheel"
-  sudo pip3 install --upgrade tflite_runtime-2.6.0-cp37-none-linux_aarch64.whl
+  pip3 install --upgrade tflite_runtime-2.6.0-cp37-none-linux_aarch64.whl
   echo "Installing colorama==0.4.4"
-  sudo pip3 install colorama==0.4.4
+  pip3 install colorama==0.4.4
   echo "Installing librosa"
-  sudo pip3 install librosa
+  pip3 install librosa
   echo "Installing mysql-connector-python"
-  sudo pip3 install mysql-connector-python
+  pip3 install mysql-connector-python
 }
 
 read -sp "\
diff --git a/scripts/install_config.sh b/scripts/install_config.sh
index 1b1457e..0e1b968 100755
--- a/scripts/install_config.sh
+++ b/scripts/install_config.sh
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ SYSTEMD_MOUNT=$(echo ${RECS_DIR#/} | tr / -).mount
 ## VENV is the virtual environment where the the BirdNET python build is found,
 ## i.e, VENV is the virtual environment miniforge built for BirdNET.
 
-VENV=$(dirname ${my_dir})/miniforge/envs/birdnet
+VENV=$(dirname ${my_dir})/birdnet
 
 ################################################################################
 #---------------------------------- Testing -----------------------------------#