Allow setting the known speaker count - #1586

Excellent feature, I see it to be very valuable.

Ideally we would sort out your PR to the whisper_diarization, so we can depend on some upstream version of it with this feature. But if that hits some road blocks we can also look for alternative way to get this fix into the Buzz.

Great work!

Thanks! I agree that depending on an upstream whisper_diarization release would be the cleanest route.

My plan is to keep the exact speaker-count option available for the current MSDD path for as long as Buzz still ships that backend. It is opt-in (Auto remains the default), and it has been useful in real recordings where automatic clustering merged a quieter or more distant participant. In parallel, I will explore the Sortformer path and the future model mentioned upstream that is expected to support up to eight speakers. Once MSDD is actually retired, the MSDD-specific option can be retired with it.

I have also separated the backend-independent part of the work into PR #1587: structured speaker metadata, an editable Speaker column with multi-row assignment, a colored and filterable Speakers view, and a colored DOCX export with optional timestamps. That workflow does not depend on MSDD; Sortformer or any future diarizer can populate the same speaker field and reuse the editor, view, and exports.

Moved your change for speaker count to a patch file in Buzz repo, it will be easier to manage. If at some point upstream whisper_diarezation repo will merge it, we can drop our patch.

Thanks again for the contribution!

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