v6.2

silvia-odwyer/photonv6.2Nov 6, 2025by snakers4

AI Summary

Significant improvements in stability and quality, specifically addressing edge cases such as unusual voices, muted speech, and lower quality phone calls.

Key Highlights

VAD training paradigm reworked
Improved quality on unusual, child, and cartoon voices
Higher stability on Out-of-Distribution (OOD) data
Enhanced handling of muted voices and speech

New Features

Improved stability on OOD/rare data
Better quality on edge cases (unusual voices, child voices, cartoon voices, muted voices, muted speech, phone calls)

Full Release Notes

- VAD training paradigm reworked;
- Overall slight quality improvement (no metrics update);
- Higher stability on OOD / rare / strange / unique data;
- Significant quality improvements on various known edge cases:
  - Unusual voices
  - Child voices
  - Cartoon voices
  - Muted voices
  - Muted speech
  - Lower quality phone calls

## What's Changed

* Fix type hint for min_silence_at_max_speech (float -> int) by @Purfview in https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/pull/714
* Adamnsandle by @adamnsandle in https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/pull/717
* Adamnsandle by @adamnsandle in https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/pull/719

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/compare/v6.1...v6.2