Official documentation
Silero VAD (GitHub repository)
Silero Team, GitHub (snakers4/silero-vad), 2026
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- The README of Silero VAD, a widely used open-source neural voice activity detector, stating its speed, licence, sampling rates and training data.
- How much weight it carries
- The project's own documentation, so good for what the tool claims about itself. Speed figures are the authors' and depend on hardware.
Facts taken from this source
- The Silero VAD project says one audio chunk of 30 ms or more takes less than 1 millisecond to process on a single CPU thread.
“One audio chunk (30+ ms) takes less than 1ms to be processed on a single CPU thread.” (README)