Buzz Captions
Open-source desktop app that transcribes and translates audio offline in 90+ languages using OpenAI's Whisper.
What it does
Buzz Captions is a free, open-source application for transcribing and translating audio and video on your own computer. It runs OpenAI's Whisper and its variants locally, supports over 90 languages, and exports transcripts to formats such as SRT, VTT, TXT and CSV.
Core features
Offline transcription and translation via Whisper models
Import audio/video files and export to CSV, SRT, TXT, VTT
Live transcription from computer microphones
Supports Whisper, Whisper.cpp, Faster Whisper, Hugging Face models and the OpenAI Whisper API
macOS-native build with in-app playback and inline transcript editing
Free and open-source across Windows, Linux and macOS
Best for
→Generating subtitles for videos
→Transcribing interviews or meetings locally
→Translating foreign-language audio into English text
→Privacy-conscious offline speech-to-text