Buzz Transcription: Weekly Recap - Reliability Fixes and a New Transcription Backend
This week's activity centered on closing gaps in live recording and folder watching reliability, alongside a broad new addition bringing FunASR and SenseVoice support into Buzz as a first-class API backend.
Duration: PT3M2S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Buzz Transcription.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Buzz Transcription
- Published: 2026-07-20T16:07:02Z
- Audio duration: PT3M2S
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Welcome to Buzz Transcription's weekly recap for July 13 through July 20.
This week saw 4 pull request activity items and 2 additional commits.
The strongest pattern this week: reliability fixes across the live recording pipeline, paired with one major feature expansion.
Let's start with live recording. Two separate fixes landed here. PR 1560, from honma89, addresses a case where stopping a live recording could cut off the transcription loop before all queued audio was processed — meaning the tail end of a recording could simply be lost. That's now fixed by letting the loop finish…
Separately, PR 1555 from NumerousDragonfly fixed a bug specific to the whisper dot c-p-p backend: using live recording with a translate task and Chinese as the source language triggered a "file not found" error. The root cause was a hardcoded route in the bundled whisper server that only supported transcription, not…
Together, these two fixes mean live recording is more trustworthy this week — both in terms of not losing audio and in supporting the full range of advertised tasks.
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