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ricky0123 / vad

vad

Voice activity detector (VAD) for the browser with a simple API

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Voice activity detector (VAD) for the browser with a simple API

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Observed mentions: 2022-10-24 16:32:39 UTC to 2026-01-09 11:46:17 UTC.

012022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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luke-stanley·Jun 27, 2024
A cross-platform browser VAD module is: https://github.com/ricky0123/vad. This is an ONNX port of Silero's VAD network. By cross-platform, I mean it works in Firefox too. It doesn't need a WebRTC session to work, just microphone access, so it's simpler. I'm curious about the browser providing this as a native option too. There are browser text-to-speech engines too, starting to get faster and higher quality. It would be great if browsers shipped with great TTS. GPT-4o has Automatic Speech Recognition, `understanding`, and speech response generation in a single model for low latency, which seems quite a good idea to me. As they've not shipped it yet, I assume they have scaling or quality issues of some kind. I assume people are working on similar open integrated multimodal large language models that have audio input and output (visual inpu
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t too)! I do wonder how needed or optimal a single combined model is for latency and cost optimisation. The breakdown provided is interesting. I think having a lot more on the model on-device is a good idea if possible, like speech generation, and possibly speech transcription or speech understanding, at least right at the start. Who wants to wait for STUN?
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