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<h1 align="center">Silero VAD</h1>
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**Silero VAD** - pre-trained enterprise-grade [Voice Activity Detector](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_activity_detection) (also see our [STT models](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models)).
This repository also includes Number Detector and Language classifier [models](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/wiki/Other-Models)
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<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36505480/145007002-8473f909-5985-4942-bbcf-9ac86d156c2f.png" />
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<details>
<summary>Real Time Example</summary>
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36505480/144874384-95f80f6d-a4f1-42cc-9be7-004c891dd481.mp4
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<h2 align="center">Key Features</h2>
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- **High accuracy**
Silero VAD has [excellent results](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/wiki/Quality-Metrics#vs-other-available-solutions) on speech detection tasks.
- **Fast**
One audio chunk (30+ ms) [takes](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/wiki/Performance-Metrics#silero-vad-performance-metrics) around **1ms** to be processed on a single CPU thread. Using batching or GPU can also improve performance considerably.
- **Lightweight**
JIT model is less than one megabyte in size.
- **General**
Silero VAD was trained on huge corpora that include over **100** languages and it performs well on audios from different domains with various background noise and quality levels.
- **Flexible sampling rate**
Silero VAD [supports](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/wiki/Quality-Metrics#sample-rate-comparison) **8000 Hz** and **16000 Hz** [sampling rates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(signal_processing)#Sampling_rate).
- **Flexible chunk size**
Model was trained on audio chunks of different lengths. **30 ms**, **60 ms** and **100 ms** long chunks are supported directly, others may work as well.
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<h2 align="center">Typical Use Cases</h2>
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- Voice activity detection for IOT / edge / mobile use cases
- Data cleaning and preparation, voice detection in general
- Telephony and call-center automation, voice bots
- Voice interfaces
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<h2 align="center">Links</h2>
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- [Examples and Dependencies](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/wiki/Examples-and-Dependencies#dependencies)
- [Quality Metrics](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/wiki/Quality-Metrics)
- [Performance Metrics](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/wiki/Performance-Metrics)
- Number Detector and Language classifier [models](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/wiki/Other-Models)
- [Versions and Available Models](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/wiki/Version-history-and-Available-Models)
- [Further reading](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models#further-reading)
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<h2 align="center">Get In Touch</h2>
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Try our models, create an [issue](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/issues/new), start a [discussion](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/discussions/new), join our telegram [chat](https://t.me/silero_speech), [email](mailto:hello@silero.ai) us, read our [news](https://t.me/silero_news).
Please see our [wiki](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models/wiki) and [tiers](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models/wiki/Licensing-and-Tiers) for relevant information and [email](mailto:hello@silero.ai) us directly.
**Citations**
```
@misc{Silero VAD,
author = {Silero Team},
title = {Silero VAD: pre-trained enterprise-grade Voice Activity Detector (VAD), Number Detector and Language Classifier},
year = {2021},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad}},
commit = {insert_some_commit_here},
email = {hello@silero.ai}
}
```