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Buzz

Free, open-source desktop app that transcribes and translates audio and video offline with Whisper and exports SRT or VTT captions. Nothing leaves your computer.

Editor's rating 4.2/5 The easiest private way for a creator to get caption files: a desktop app, offline, free, and actively maintained.

Credit: Buzz, chidiwilliams

GitHub: chidiwilliams/buzz · 22,136 stars as of Oct 22, 2026

License: MIT

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