Buzz Transcription: Speakers Get a Proper Data Model
A single large pull request restructures how the app handles speaker diarization, moving speaker labels out of raw transcript text into a dedicated data field, with new editing, viewing, and DOCX export features built on top.
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- Show: Buzz Transcription
- Published: 2026-08-21T13:17:21Z
- Audio duration: PT2M22S
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Good morning. It's August 21st, 2026, and this is Buzz Transcription.
Today's headline is a single, broad pull request that changes how speaker identity is stored and used throughout the app.
PR #1587, from ciklois-neo, tackles a foundational problem: speaker labels were previously embedded directly in transcript text. That's a fragile approach, since it mixes structured data with free-form content and makes editing or exporting speaker information unreliable. This PR moves speaker data into its own…
On top of that data model change, the PR adds real user-facing functionality in one coordinated push. The timestamp editor gets an editable Speaker column, with inline selection, custom naming, and the ability to assign a speaker across multiple rows at once. A new Speakers view adds stable color coding, explicit…
The theme here is consolidation: rather than layering speaker features onto a shaky text-based foundation, this PR rebuilds the foundation first, then adds editing, viewing, and export as consistent, connected features on top of it. Because the change spans the DAO, service, plugin, and schema layers, this is the…
What's next: watch for follow-up work confirming backward…
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