Tools

Offline speech transcription and translation based on Whisper; audio never leaves your machine. buzz add exports lectures, interviews and meeting recordings to TXT, SRT or VTT. pip install needs Python 3.12 and FFmpeg; a desktop app is also available. Check transcripts manually.

All-in-one video translation and dubbing: chains speech recognition, subtitle translation, multi-speaker AI voiceover and audio-video muxing, with local or online models like Faster-Whisper, DeepSeek and Edge-TTS. cli.py supports headless batch runs. Needs FFmpeg.

CLI version of the VideoCaptioner subtitle assistant: transcribes courses, lectures and interviews, uses an LLM to segment, proofread and translate, then burns subtitles into the video. Free ASR and Bing translation work out of the box; LLM refinement needs an API key. Python 3.10 to 3.12.

Creates and edits local CapCut (JianYing) drafts from the terminal: rough cuts on silence, styled subtitles and multilingual versions, still editable track by track in CapCut. Needs Node 18+ and desktop CapCut; subtitles need Whisper, translation an Anthropic key. No encrypted drafts. Unofficial.

Automatically aligns subtitles to audio and video with a neural network, and can transcribe subtitles with Whisper or translate them with local models; supports 10+ formats such as SRT, TTML and SCC. Needs Python 3.9-3.12 and FFmpeg; transcription and translation need the llm extra.