buzz

Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.

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Buzz

Documentation

Transcribe and translate audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by
OpenAI's Whisper.

!MIT License
![CI](https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
![codecov](https://codecov.io/github/chidiwilliams/buzz)
!GitHub release (latest by date)
![Github all releases](https://GitHub.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/releases/)

!Buzz

Features


- Transcribe audio and video files or Youtube links
- Live realtime audio transcription from microphone
- Presentation window for easy accessibility during events and presentations
- Speech separation before transcription for better accuracy on noisy audio
- Speaker identification in transcribed media
- Multiple whisper backend support
- CUDA acceleration support for Nvidia GPUs
- Apple Silicon support for Macs
- Vulkan acceleration support for Whisper.cpp on most GPUs, including integrated GPUs
- Export transcripts to TXT, SRT, and VTT
- Advanced Transcription Viewer with search, playback controls, and speed adjustment
- Keyboard shortcuts for efficient navigation
- Watch folder for automatic transcription of new files
- Command-Line Interface for scripting and automation

Installation

macOS

Download the .dmg from the SourceForge.

Windows

Get the installation files from the SourceForge.

App is not signed, you will get a warning when you install it. Select More info -> Run anyway.

Linux

Buzz is available as a Flatpak or a Snap.

To install flatpak, run:

shell
flatpak install flathub io.github.chidiwilliams.Buzz

![Download on Flathub](https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.chidiwilliams.Buzz)

To install snap, run:

shell
sudo apt-get install libportaudio2 libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module
sudo snap install buzz

![Get it from the Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/buzz)

PyPI

Install ffmpeg

Ensure you use Python 3.12 environment.

Install Buzz

shell
pip install buzz-captions
python -m buzz

GPU support for PyPI

To have GPU support for Nvidia GPUS on Windows, for PyPI installed version ensure, CUDA support for torch

text
pip3 install -U torch==2.8.0+cu129 torchaudio==2.8.0+cu129 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu129
pip3 install nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.9.1.4 nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.9.79 nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.9.79 --extra-index-url https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com

Latest development version

For info on how to get latest development version with latest features and bug fixes see FAQ.

Support Buzz

You can help the Buzz by starring 🌟 the repo and sharing it with your friends.

Screenshots

<div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;">
<img alt="File import" src="https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/raw/main/share/screenshots/buzz-1-import.png" style="max-width: 18%; margin-right: 1%;" />
<img alt="Main screen" src="https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/raw/main/share/screenshots/buzz-2-main_screen.png" style="max-width: 18%; margin-right: 1%; height:auto;" />
<img alt="Preferences" src="https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/raw/main/share/screenshots/buzz-3-preferences.png" style="max-width: 18%; margin-right: 1%; height:auto;" />
<img alt="Model preferences" src="https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/raw/main/share/screenshots/buzz-3.2-model-preferences.png" style="max-width: 18%; margin-right: 1%; height:auto;" />
<img alt="Transcript" src="https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/raw/main/share/screenshots/buzz-4-transcript.png" style="max-width: 18%; margin-right: 1%; height:auto;" />
<img alt="Live recording" src="https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/raw/main/share/screenshots/buzz-5-live_recording.png" style="max-width: 18%; margin-right: 1%; height:auto;" />
<img alt="Resize" src="https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/raw/main/share/screenshots/buzz-6-resize.png" style="max-width: 18%;" />
</div>