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Voice Activity Detection
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by Pyannote
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCAL
RANKED #13 OF 19 AUDIO · OVERALL #259 OF 6,520 · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 33 VOICES
voice-activity-detection on Hugging Face (automatic speech recognition). 4,300,717 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.5
1 mentions
SAD5.5
1 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 14 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Voice Activity Detection yet to call it. We found 33 posts but people did not say much either way.
32 POSTS · 1 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · REDDIT · GITHUB · DEV.TO
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
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