Overview
Buzz is a desktop app that runs Whisper locally to transcribe and translate audio and video, so nothing is uploaded. Its command-line interface and Python package can sit inside a scripted repurposing pipeline. It has no REST API, webhooks or hosted service, and transcription speed depends on your own hardware.
Key Features
- ✓Runs Whisper models fully offline on your own machine
- ✓Command-line interface for scripting and batch jobs
- ✓Installable as a Python package (buzz-captions)
- ✓Exports SRT, VTT and plain text transcripts
- ✓Free and MIT licensed with no account required
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