Buzz Captions
PaidOffline audio transcription and translation
About Buzz Captions
Buzz Captions is an offline audio transcription and translation tool powered by OpenAI's Whisper. It supports importing audio and video files, exporting transcripts to CSV, SRT, TXT, and VTT formats, and offers live transcription and translation from a computer's microphone. The tool works with multiple Whisper backends (Whisper, Whisper.cpp, Faster Whisper, Hugging Face models, and the OpenAI Whisper API) and handles over 90 languages for both X-audio-to-English-text and X-audio-to-X-text transcriptions. It is free and open-source on GitHub, with versions for Windows, Linux, and macOS (Intel) and a separate macOS native app.
Key Features
Pros & Cons
- Fully offline transcription and translation
- Supports multiple Whisper implementations for flexibility
- Free and open-source
- Wide range of export formats (CSV, SRT, TXT, VTT)
- Live transcription feature from microphone
- Over 90 languages supported
- Transcription may not be real-time depending on system resources, chosen language, and model size
- Buzz Classic only available on Windows, Linux, and macOS (Intel); no native Apple Silicon version for classic edition
- macOS native app has limited model support (only Whisper.cpp and OpenAI API)
- Resource-intensive due to Whisper processing
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