chidiwilliams

    chidiwilliams/buzz

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

    22.4K stars
    1.7K forks
    22.4K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 4, 2026
    View on GitHub

    Build with Backblaze B2

    SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.

    Explore Backblaze Labs

    Loading star history...

    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 73 days ago, with 51 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #99 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 18, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Transcribes and translates audio offline on personal computers using OpenAI's Whisper model.
    • Enables private, offline audio transcription and translation without requiring internet connectivity.
    • Use for converting recorded interviews into text securely without uploading files to the cloud.
    • Use for translating foreign language audio files into your native language during offline research.
    • Use for live audio transcription and captioning in environments with limited or no internet access.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

    No watch-outs from GStars' checks.

    General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score

    From the README

    [简体中文] <- 点击查看中文页面。

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

    Excerpt from the chidiwilliams/buzz README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Forks

    1.7K+126

    Open issues

    21+1

    Compared with peers in Backend

    Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth

    chidiwilliams/buzz compared with Backend repositories by stars, 7-day star growth, health score and last release
    RepositoryStars+7dHealthLast release
    anthropics/skills192.3K+5.2K75—
    zed-industries/zed94.7K+2.3K756 days ago
    google/skills23.8K+2.0K75—
    NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra99.4K+1.8K7519 days ago
    DuarteSantos8/openGym20.8K+1.7K757 days ago
    chidiwilliams/buzz22.4K—6173 days ago
    Category median94.7K+2.0K75—

    Discover Repositories

    Search across tracked repositories by name or description