Buzz Transcription: Weekly Recap - Import Compatibility & Plugin Extensibility
This week Buzz expanded file format and language support while laying groundwork for smarter post-processing plugins, spanning three pull requests and two supporting commits.
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- Show: Buzz Transcription
- Published: 2026-08-31T16:08:11Z
- Audio duration: PT3M2S
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Welcome to Buzz Transcription's Weekly Recap for August 24th through August 31st, 2026.
Three pull request activity items and two additional commits this week. The clearest pattern: the project is widening who can use Buzz and how, on both the input side and the plugin side.
Let's start with import compatibility. PR #1595, from openaudible, adds support for M4B, M4V, and AAC files, closing a gap where audiobook and video-audio formats simply couldn't be selected or picked up by watched folders. Just as notable is the cleanup underneath: the file dialog filters and the watched-folder…
Second theme: plugin extensibility and transcription data. PR #1600, still open from Dicur3x, introduces per-segment review reasons for post-processing plugins. Right now, plugins that run after transcription can rewrite segments outright, but they have no way to flag a segment for human review without destroying…
Third theme: reach and localization. PR #1598, merged from raivisdejus, adds a French translation contributed by Cherkah, closing out a community-requested issue. It's a smaller change in scope, but it's part of a steady pattern of broadening who can use Buzz in their own language.
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