Voice Activity Detection (VAD) Library

An open-source voice activity detection system that outperforms existing solutions like Silero and Pyannote. Can be used in speech recognition, call screening, and audio processing. Target: developers, speech AI companies, transcription services.

Speech AI pipeline investment is accelerating fast — every transcription, voice agent, and real-time audio product needs reliable VAD as a foundational layer, and demand from that stack is genuinely high right now. Silero VAD is the closest incumbent, widely used and well-regarded, which means outperforming it on benchmarks is the actual bar, not just a marketing claim. Revenue here is deeply unclear: open-source libraries rarely monetize directly, so the viable paths are a managed API, enterprise support contracts, or using it as a distribution wedge into something paid — none of which are guaranteed to convert. The biggest risk is that Silero and Pyannote are already good enough for most use cases, and "better benchmark numbers" doesn't create switching costs when the existing libraries are free, maintained, and already integrated.