# 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.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/silero-vad-pre-trained-enterprise-voice-activity-detection` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/silero-vad-pre-trained-enterprise-voice-activity-detection`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/silero-vad-pre-trained-enterprise-voice-activity-detection/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/silero-vad-pre-trained-enterprise-voice-activity-detection

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# 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/)