Silero VAD
One voice detector to rule them all
Silero VAD launched on December 19, 2021 with 71 votes, #816 of 2,707 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
What it does
Stellar quality. Highly portable. No strings attached. Supports 8 kHz and 16 kHz. Models < one megabyte in size. Supports 30, 60 and 100 ms chunks. Trained on 100+ languages, generalizes well. One chunk ~ 1ms on a single thread. ONNX up to 2-3x faster.
Silero VAD: pre-trained enterprise-grade Voice Activity Detector - snakers4/silero-vad
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