buzz/README.md

Buzz

Buzz transcribes audio from your computer's microphones to text using OpenAI's Whisper. Buzz works by splitting audio recordings into chunks and transcribing the chunks to text using Whisper.

Requirements

To set up Buzz, first install ffmpeg (needed to run Whisper).

# on Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg

# on MacOS using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
brew install ffmpeg

# on Windows using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/)
choco install ffmpeg

# on Windows using Scoop (https://scoop.sh/)
scoop install ffmpeg

Build

To build Buzz, run:

pip install -r requirements.txt
make buzz