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Buzz

Documentation | Buzz Captions on the App Store

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

Buzz is better on the App Store. Get a Mac-native version of Buzz with a cleaner look, audio playback, drag-and-drop import, transcript editing, search, and much more.

Installation

macOS

Download the .dmg from the SourceForge.

Windows

Get the installation files from the SourceForge.

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

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

PyPI

Install ffmpeg

Install Buzz

pip install buzz-captions
python -m buzz

GPU support for PyPI

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

pip3 install -U torch==2.7.1+cu128 torchaudio==2.7.1+cu128 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128
pip3 install nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.8.3.14 nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.8.57 nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12==12.8.61 nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.8.57 nvidia-cudnn-cu12==9.7.1.26 nvidia-cufft-cu12==11.3.3.41 nvidia-curand-cu12==10.3.9.55 nvidia-cusolver-cu12==11.7.2.55 nvidia-cusparse-cu12==12.5.4.2 nvidia-cusparselt-cu12==0.6.3 nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12==12.8.61 nvidia-nvtx-cu12==12.8.55 --extra-index-url https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com

Latest development version

For info on how to get latest development version with latest features and bug fixes see FAQ.

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