Buzz

Overview

Buzz is a speech-to-text AI service, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

File formats mentioned: SRT, VTT and CSV.

Services and protocols mentioned: OpenAI and Hugging Face.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

At a glance

Buzz is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

About

Buzz transcribes and translates audio to text offline using OpenAI's Whisper. Import audio and video files into Buzz and export them as TXT, SRT, or VTT files. Buzz supports Whisper, Whisper.cpp, Faster Whisper, Whisper-compatible models from the Hugging Face repository, and the OpenAI Whisper API. Required permissions in Buzz will let you select audio and video files for transcription, from most common file location on your computer. Network permission is used to download transcription model files. Microphone permission lets you transcribe real time speech. Note: If your system theme is not applied to Buzz, ensure it is in ~/.themes folder. You may need to copy the system themes to this folder cp -r /usr/share/themes/ ~/.themes/ and give Flatpaks access to this folder flatpak override --user --filesystem=~/.themes.

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