Buzz Transcription: Flexibility for Power Users, Stability for Everyone Else
This release cycle focused on giving power users more control—multiple custom Whisper.cpp models and per-segment plugin review reasons—while quietly fixing a broken CI pipeline and a folder watch bug that likely affected day-to-day reliability.
Duration: PT2M41S
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- Show: Buzz Transcription
- Published: 2026-09-12T13:15:54Z
- Audio duration: PT2M41S
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Good day, and welcome to Buzz Transcription for September 12th, 2026.
The clearest thread running through today's activity: Buzz is giving users and plugins more granular control, while shoring up the infrastructure that keeps builds trustworthy.
Start with flexibility. PR 1614, from Shai34, ends a long-standing limitation where Buzz could only hold one custom Whisper.cpp model at a fixed file path. Now users can register several fine-tuned models side by side — the example given is a fast Turbo model for everyday Hebrew lecture transcription, and a slower,…
Related in spirit is PR 1600 from Dicur3x, closing issue 1570. It adds review reasons to individual transcription segments, so after-transcription plugins can flag a segment without silently rewriting it. Reasons persist as JSON across completed, skipped, replaced, and cached transcriptions, with a database…
Second theme: reliability work under the hood. PR 1616 from 787x fixes the GitHub Actions FFmpeg setup after the third-party bootstrap action started failing outright — Windows downloads returned "not found," and Ubuntu got invalid archives. The fix replaces that dependency with native package managers: apt on…
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