Yes, ONNX is required to use VAD Silero. The implementation of Silero VAD is entirely built around ONNX Runtime: • The Python plugin requires

onnxruntime>=1.18

as a dependency, while the JavaScript plugin depends on

onnxruntime-node

. • A pre-trained ONNX model file (

silero_vad.onnx

) is included, which contains the actual VAD model. • The VAD class constructor uses an

onnxruntime.InferenceSession

parameter, and the

load()

method loads the ONNX model for inference. • All voice activity detection inference is performed using ONNX Runtime's inference session. Without ONNX Runtime, the Silero VAD plugin cannot function as it relies on executing the pre-trained ONNX model. Sources: examples/other/transcription/translator.py | REUSE.toml