The best Silero VAD alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to Silero VAD, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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Silero VADPre-trained voice activity detector that finds where speech occurs in audio, for Python, ONNX, and other runti
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pyannote
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.8k
Python toolkit for figuring out who spoke when in an audio recording, using pretrained PyTorch models.
Best for: Developers who want to add speaker separation to a Python audio workflow; Researchers comparing or fine-tuning speaker diarization models
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FunASR
Open source · MIT · ★ 20.9k
Open-source speech-to-text toolkit with streaming, voice detection, punctuation and speaker pipelines.
Best for: Developers who want to transcribe audio in Python with a pretrained model; Teams planning a move away from Whisper or a cloud ASR provider, who want to benchmark on their own audio
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ONNX Runtime
Open source · MIT · ★ 22.2k
A cross-platform library for running and training machine learning models quickly.
Best for: Developers who want to deploy a trained model inside an application or service; Teams running the same model across Windows, Linux, macOS, or ARM devices
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Silero VAD. We don't take payment for placement.