RunAnywhere.vad answers “is someone talking right now”. It is what a voice interface uses
to decide when a turn has ended.
Signatures
Streaming from a microphone
openStream is synchronous here and returns a handle you push frames into.
Streaming from an AsyncStream
Options
minSilenceMs is the one to tune. Too short and the model interrupts a person who paused to
think; too long and the interface feels sluggish.
prefixPaddingMs matters because detection lags the first syllable. Without padding, “hello”
arrives at the transcriber as “ello”.