Testing for the upcoming v1.3.0 release.

[raivisdejus]

Get the latest development version as described here https://chidiwilliams.github.io/buzz/docs/faq#9-where-can-i-get-latest-development-version and report if you encounter any issues

This release introduces Vulkan GPU support for whisper.cpp making it significantly faster even on laptops. Real-time transcription is possible even with large models. There is now an option to separate voice track before the audio is transcribed. This can improve transcript accuracy for audios with background noises or music. Faster whisper was updated to the latest version adding noticeable speed improvement.

Additional improvements:

• Option to switch the UI language from preferences
• Library updates for better Linux compatibility, especially in Flatpak installations
• Option to upload live transcripts to a server
• Search and additional controls in Transcription viewer by @shlomi-dr
• Added UI translation for German, Dutch, Danish and Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Minor bug fixes

[raivisdejus]

Current progress on the road to release of 1.3.0

• Fix Windows hanging after 30 seconds in live transcription mode
• Fix Faster whisper crash on Windows (error loading onnxruntime dll)
• Investigate detection of Gnome theme and implement styling for Adwaita!
• Fix whipser.cpp on Intel macOS (build and errors running larger models) or drop support for Intel macOS for the new release

We are ready to release :)

[Mikaelsu]

There's no privacy policy that details what data is collected, why, and where it is hosted. Are there any plans for one?

[raivisdejus]

Buzz 1.3.0 introduces basic telemetry collection to Posthog. To guide development efforts I am curious what platforms and languages Buzz is used on and what platforms are not used. Specifically curious when to drop support for Intel macOS devices.

Example of non user identifiable data collected

Buzz: 1.3.0, locale: ('lv_LV', 'UTF-8'), system: Linux, release: 6.14.0-27-generic, machine: x86_64, version: #27~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Jul 22 17:38:49 UTC 2,

Collection of this telemetry can be disabled with and advanced preference BUZZ_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true

Apart from that no other data is collected.

@Mikaelsu what do you think is the best way to disclose this to the users? File in the repo, discussion post, section in the documentation page?