Feature Request: Great new VAD and ASR models
Author: D3vShoaibCreated Apr 16, 2026Updated Sep 5, 2026
I’d like to suggest adding support for a newer VAD and ASR stack.
FireRedVAD is multilingual, ~97.5% F1, streaming, theoretically better than Silero VAD.
NVIDIA Parakeet is streaming, English only, better than parakeet v2/v3.
Would be useful to have these as optional backends alongside the current setup.
Source: huggingface/speech-to-speech