v6.2.3

Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmyv6.2.3Sep 23, 2026by adamnsandle

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AI Summary

Torchaudio has been demoted from a required dependency to an optional one, requiring users to explicitly install a backend like torchaudio or torchcodec for audio I/O operations.

Key Highlights

  • Torchaudio is now an optional dependency
  • Added support for torchcodec backend
  • Fixed `import silero_vad` failure when onnxruntime is missing
  • Lazy loading of sequence path to improve imports

Breaking Changes

  • `read_audio` / `save_audio` now raise an error if neither torchaudio nor torchcodec is installed

New Features

  • Support for torchaudio and torchcodec backends
  • Explicit backend installation requirements

Full Release Notes

torchaudio is now an optional dependency instead of required. Only torch is required — the model itself never used torchaudio, only the `read_audio` / `save_audio` helpers did.

Users who need audio I/O must now install a backend explicitly:

- `pip install silero-vad[audio]` (torchaudio)
- `pip install silero-vad[codec]` (torchcodec)
- `pip install silero-vad[all]` (everything)

Key changes:

- `read_audio` / `save_audio` now work with either torchaudio or torchcodec; with neither installed they raise an error naming the extra to install
- Fixed: `import silero_vad` failed when onnxruntime was not installed — the sequence path is now imported lazily
- numpy is now declared in [onnx-cpu] / [onnx-gpu]

If you load audio yourself, no backend is needed at all:

```python3
from silero_vad import load_silero_vad, get_speech_timestamps

model = load_silero_vad()
audio = ...                                      # 1-D float32 torch.Tensor from any source
ts = get_speech_timestamps(audio, model, return_seconds=True)
```

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