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am I able to add silero VAD to the multimodal open...

strong-pizza-31661

07/21/2025, 5:06 PM

am I able to add silero VAD to the multimodal openai agent? can both be used concurrently? can i add these at all? only respond in the affirmative if there is an example or xplicit source that llows this with the multimodal. @runllm _allow_interruptions_=True, # Let customer interrupt agent _min_interruption_duration_=0.5, # Customer must speak at least 0.8s to interrupt _min_endpointing_delay_=1.5, # Wait 3.5s of silence before ending turn _max_endpointing_delay_=4.0,# But never wait more than 6s )

tall-airline-16756

07/21/2025, 5:06 PM

Thanks for reaching out, Rhythm. I'm an AI assistant and I'm here to help. Give me a moment while I research this topic.

tall-airline-16756

07/21/2025, 5:07 PM

Silero VAD can be integrated with the multimodal OpenAI agent in LiveKit. There is an explicit example demonstrating concurrent use of Silero VAD and the multimodal OpenAI agent:

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from livekit.plugins import (
    openai,
    silero
)

async def entrypoint(ctx: agents.JobContext):
    await ctx.connect()

    session = AgentSession(
        llm=openai.realtime.RealtimeModel(),
        vad=silero.VAD.load()
    )

    await session.start(
        room=ctx.room,
        agent=Assistant()
    )

This example shows the multimodal agent (

openai.realtime.RealtimeModel()

) being configured with Silero VAD (

silero.VAD.load()

) in an

AgentSession

. Both VoicePipelineAgent and MultimodalAgent support VAD for turn detection, and the integration is officially supported. While there is an explicit example, detailed documentation for customizing VAD parameters with the multimodal agent may be limited or incomplete in some sources.

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