Buzz Captions

Buzz Captions is a flexible application designed for offline audio transcription and translation. Operating directly on your computer, it ensures privacy and ease of use.

The program utilizes Whisper from OpenAI, an advanced system for speech recognition. Buzz Captions allows you to import audio and video, and then export the resulting transcripts into various formats like CSV, SRT, TXT, and VTT.

The application provides live transcription and translation using your computer's microphone. With support for numerous languages, it can transcribe from X-audio-to-English-text or X-audio-to-X-text.

However, because it relies on Whisper, keep in mind that audio transcription may consume significant resources and might not be real-time. Performance depends on your system's capabilities, as well as the selected language and model size.

Buzz Captions distinguishes itself with broad accessibility across Windows, Linux, and macOS. It competently supports different Whisper models, granting users versatility.

In addition, this tool is offered as free and open-source software on GitHub, underscoring a commitment to accessible technology and innovation. The macOS edition of Buzz Captions has the look and feel of macOS and offers features like search, transcript audio playback, and transcript inline editing.