Buzz

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

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

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Installation

PyPI

Install ffmpeg

Install Buzz

pip install buzz-captions
python -m buzz

macOS

Install with brew utility

brew install --cask buzz

Or download the .dmg from the releases page.

Windows

Download and run the .exe from the releases page.

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

GPU support for PyPI

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

pip3 uninstall torch torchaudio
pip3 install torch==2.2.2+cu121 torchaudio==2.2.2+cu121 nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.1.3.1 nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.1.105 nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12==12.1.105 nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.1.105 nvidia-cufft-cu12==11.0.2.54 nvidia-curand-cu12==10.3.2.106 nvidia-cusolver-cu12==11.4.5.107 nvidia-cusparse-cu12==12.1.0.106 nvidia-nccl-cu12==2.19.3 nvidia-nvtx-cu12==12.1.105  --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121 --extra-index-url https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com

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