chidiwilliams

    chidiwilliams/buzz

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

    backend
    whisper
    Python
    MIT
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    Updated 3/2/2026
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    About buzz

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    Buzz

    Documentation

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

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    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.

    Alternatively, install with winget

    winget install ChidiWilliams.Buzz
    

    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
    sudo snap connect buzz:password-manager-service
    

    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.

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