Silero Vad Voice Activity Detection

---
name: "Silero VAD Pre-Trained Enterprise Voice Activity Detection"
slug: "silero-vad-voice-activity-detection"
description: "Silero VAD is a pre-trained enterprise-grade Voice Activity Detector that identifies speech segments in audio streams. It runs locally via PyTorch or ONNX Runtime with minimal resource requirements, making it ideal for real-time audio processing pipelines."
github_stars: 8604
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad"
category: "Media & Transcription"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "snakers4/silero-vad"
  github_stars: 8604
---

# Silero VAD Pre-Trained Enterprise Voice Activity Detection

Silero VAD is a pre-trained enterprise-grade Voice Activity Detector that identifies speech segments in audio streams. It runs locally via PyTorch or ONNX Runtime with minimal resource requirements, making it ideal for real-time audio processing pipelines.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pip install silero-vad

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- System requirements to run python examples on x86-64 systems:
- python 3.8+;

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/snakers4/silero-vad/blob/master/silero-vad.ipynb) [![Test Package](https://github.com/snakers4/sile...
- <summary>Real Time Example</summary>
- onnxruntime>=1.16.1 (for ONNX model usage).

- Source: https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snakers4/silero-vad/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/silero-vad-voice-activity-detection/)