Week of January 06 - January 13, 2026
Welcome to Buzz Transcription's weekly developer recap for January 6th through 13th, 2026. Two PRs merged and two additional commits this week. **Bug Fixes** Rob Siera resolved two critical issues in speaker…
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- Published: 2026-01-13T16:43:28Z
- Audio duration: PT2M35S
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Welcome to Buzz Transcription's weekly developer recap for January 6th through 13th, 2026.
Two PRs merged and two additional commits this week.
**Bug Fixes**
Rob Siera resolved two critical issues in speaker identification functionality. The first fix addresses chunk size errors that occurred when processing long transcriptions. The speaker identification system was attempting to process punctuation model predictions in batches that were too large, triggering assertion…
The second fix resolves missing spaces after punctuation in transcribed text. The issue stemmed from how transcript segments were joined for whisperx alignment. Segments were being concatenated without spaces using Python's join method, producing awkward text like "ok.Yes" instead of "ok. Yes." The fix changes the…
Both fixes target the transcription viewer's speaker identification widget, addressing issues reported by users experiencing problems with long-form content processing and text formatting quality.