Buzz (Whisper)
App : A product you use directly
Local transcription with Whisper, SRT and VTT export, no account or cloud required.
Free and private transcription for everyone.
Security reflects where data goes, requested permissions and incidents on record at the verification date. It is not a guarantee of zero risk: check the deployment mode and the connections you enable.
What it does, concretely
Recording a meeting, a conference or a video and getting an accurate transcript usually means going through an online service that stores your audio files on its servers. Buzz solves this problem by running the Whisper speech recognition engine directly on your computer, without sending any data outside.
In practice, you import an audio or video file, or paste a YouTube link, and Buzz starts the transcription locally. You can also enable real-time transcription from your microphone, with a presentation window suited for public events. Once done, you export the result as TXT, SRT or VTT depending on your needs.
Buzz is aimed at journalists, researchers, content creators, subtitlers and anyone who regularly processes audio or video and wants to keep control of their data. The tool also suits privacy-conscious users who refuse to entrust their recordings to a third party.
That said, Buzz requires a minimum of technical comfort to install, especially on Windows where the application is unsigned and triggers a security warning. Users looking for a fully browser-based, install-free solution will need to look elsewhere.
What it offers
- ·Offline transcription of audio and video files as well as YouTube links, with no internet connection required.
- ·Real-time transcription from the microphone, with a dedicated presentation window for events and conferences.
- ·Speech separation before transcription to improve accuracy on noisy recordings.
- ·Speaker identification in transcribed media.
- ·GPU acceleration via CUDA for Nvidia cards, Apple Silicon for M1 and later Macs, and Vulkan for most other GPUs.
- ·Export of transcripts as TXT, SRT and VTT.
- ·Advanced transcript viewer with search, playback controls and speed adjustment.
- ·Watch folder for automatic transcription of new files, and a command-line interface for automation.
In practice
- Price
- Free
- Commercial use
- Commercial use: yes
- Available on
- windows, macos, linux
- Licence
- MIT
- FR interface
- No
Security and data
- Rating
- Security: nothing to flag
- Your data
- Data stays local
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last release
- 23 August 2026
Links and repository checked on 25 October 2026 · added on 1 October 2022
How to install Buzz (Whisper)
flatpak install flathub io.github.chidiwilliams.BuzzRecipes using Buzz (Whisper)
- Summarise a meeting and extract the action listA clean summary, the decisions and the actions with an owner, ten minutes after the meeting ends.
- Transcribe and subtitle a video without uploading it anywhereA clean SRT subtitle file, generated on your machine, ready for YouTube, LinkedIn or your editor.