Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.

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README

[简体中文]  Intel Macs: Buzz now requires Apple silicon. The last version to support
 Intel Macs is 1.4.5.

 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.

 Linux

Buzz is available as a Flatpak, Snap or Appimage. 

To install flatpak, run:
shell
flatpak install flathub io.github.chidiwilliams.Buzz




To install snap, run:
shell
sudo apt-get install libportaudio2 libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module
sudo snap install buzz




 PyPI

Install ffmpeg

Ensure you use Python 3.12 environment.

Install Buzz

shell
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==2.8.0+cu129 torchaudio==2.8.0+cu129 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu129
pip3 install nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.9.1.4 nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.9.79 nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.9.79 --extra-index-url https://pypi.nvidia.com


 Latest development version

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

 Nvidia CUDA GPU acceleration

If you are on Buzz version 1.4.6 (once it is released) or later and have a Nvidia GPU, go to Help - About Buzz and install CUDA Acceleration.

 Support Buzz

You can help the Buzz by starring 🌟 the repo and sharing it with your friends.

 Screenshots

Snapshot: 2026-11-10T09:35:25Z · Data license Apache-2.0 · JSON