Buzz transcribes and translates audio to text offline using OpenAI's Whisper. Import audio and video files into Buzz and export them as TXT, SRT, or VTT files. Buzz supports Whisper, Whisper.cpp, Faster Whisper, Whisper-compatible models from the Hugging Face repository, and the OpenAI Whisper API.
Required permissions in Buzz will let you select audio and video files for transcription, from most common file location on your computer. Network permission is used to download transcription model files. Microphone permission lets you transcribe real time speech.
Note: If your system theme is not applied to Buzz, ensure it is in ~/.themes folder. You may need to copy the system themes to this folder cp -r /usr/share/themes/ ~/.themes/ and give Flatpaks access to this folder flatpak override --user --filesystem=~/.themes.
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1.4.523 Aug 2026
This version adds a plugin system to Extend buzz. As well as bug fixes and minor improvements.
- Plugin system with plugins like AI summary generation and automated transcript resizing or noise filter
- Speaker identification improvements
- Appimage support for Linux
1.4.48 Mar 2026
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
- Fixed Youtube link downloading
- Added option to import folder
- Extra settings for live recordings
- Adjusted live recording batching process to avoid min-word cuts
- Update checker for Windows and Macs
- Added voice activity detection to whisper.cpp
1.4.326 Jan 2026
Fixed support for whisper.cpp on older CPUs and issues in speaker identification.
1.4.23 Jan 2026
Adding speaker identification on transcriptions and video support for transcription viewer, improvements to transcription table and support for over 1000 of worlds languages via MMS models as well as separate window to show live transcripts on a projector.
Release details:
- Speaker identification on finished transcripts
- Support for video in transcription viewer
- Presentation (projector) window for live transcripts
- Ability to add notes and restart transcriptions in main table
- Adding support for more than 1000 languages via MMS model family when transcribing with Huggingface transcription type
- Adding support for PEFT models when transcribing with Huggingface transcription type
- Adding support for 8bit quantization for Huggingface and faster Whisper transcriptions
- Updated libraries and dependencies to support latest GPUs
- Support for secrets portal for snap packages on Linux
- Ability to specify model to use when transcribing with OpenAI API
- Ability to access application logs from About screen