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Briefing (Buzz / Speaches)

Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 1 SaaS tool on os-alt

chidiwilliams/buzz · alive · ★ 19.1k · last commit 6d ago · 25 open issues

License: MIT

Good fit for Teams that already rely on the OpenAI Audio API and want a drop-in self-hosted endpoint via Speaches plus a desktop tool for one-off jobs.

Weak at No first-class meeting-recorder or speaker-diarization workflow bundled — pair with a separate diarization step.

In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli otter-ai prints the Otter.ai comparison table including Briefing (Buzz / Speaches). how the CLI works →

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  • Otter.ai · Meeting transcription / AI notes

    Buzz wraps Whisper.cpp with a desktop UI for transcription + live captioning. Install from chidiwilliams.com/buzz. Drop audio files in batch; outputs SRT/VTT/TXT/JSON. For server-mode live transcription, deploy `speaches-ai/speaches` (an OpenAI-API-compatible Whisper server) — your apps call `/v1/audio/transcriptions` exactly as they would call OpenAI.

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