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chidiwilliams/buzz

Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 87
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 50.5
  • age_days: 1439
  • days_rel: 10
  • days_push: 10
  • n_releases_24m: 9

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

21147 stars · 1559 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Buzz is a cross-platform desktop application that transcribes and translates audio and video offline using OpenAI's Whisper models. It offers a GUI plus CLI, live microphone transcription, speaker identification, and export to TXT, SRT, and VTT.

Use cases

  • transcribe audio files to text offline
  • generate subtitles in srt or vtt format
  • transcribe youtube videos
  • live transcription from microphone during presentations
  • identify speakers in recorded meetings
  • translate foreign-language audio to english

When to choose

  • you need offline transcription without sending audio to the cloud
  • you want a gui plus cli for batch or scripted transcription
  • you need subtitle export and speaker diarization in one tool
  • you have an nvidia gpu, apple silicon, or vulkan-capable gpu for acceleration

When to avoid

  • you need a server-side or headless transcription api at scale
  • you require cloud-based accuracy or enterprise features
  • you still use an intel mac (support ended at version 1.4.5)

Facets

application · maturity active

speech-recognition audio-processing gui cli machine-learning llm-inference speech-processing media developer-tools cross-platform windows python whisper transcription subtitles offline speaker-identification captioning audio macos linux desktop gpu

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
chidiwilliams/buzzmain95

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="chidiwilliams/buzz")

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