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Buzz

Documentation

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

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:

flatpak install flathub io.github.chidiwilliams.Buzz

To install snap, run:

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

PyPI

Install ffmpeg

Ensure you use Python 3.12 environment.

Install Buzz

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

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>