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Silero VAD: pre-trained enterprise-grade Voice Activity Detector

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2021-12-30 · latest 2026-05-03

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  1. …engine, but I needed a fallback for iOS devices (especially older ones) which can easily OOM. [1] - https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad [2] - https://shahkur.specr.net [3] - https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx
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    Silero VAD v6 Released
    story by thomasm6m6 · 2025-08-26 · 0 comments
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    AI Voice Agents: Opensource, Pre-Trained Voice Activity Detector
    story by selvan · 2024-07-29 · 0 comments
  4. …voice-to-voice latency from the end-user's perspective, and found Silero voice activity detection ( https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad ) to be the most reliable at detecting when the user has stopped speaking, so we can start the timer…
    comment by makeitmore · 2024-06-27 · in Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times
  5. >How do you detect speech starting and stopping? https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad
    comment by depr · 2023-11-07 · in New models and developer products
  6. One of Silero-VAD developers here. Check out our VAD here - https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad
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    Silero VAD: pre-trained enterprise-grade voice activity detector
    story by TheRealAicantar · 2021-12-30 · 2 comments
  8. …on 100+ languages, generalizes well. One chunk ~ 1ms on a single thread. ONNX up to 2-3x faster. https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad
    comment by snakers41 · 2021-12-30