alt Hacker NewsOr you could use Soniox Real-time (supports 60 languages) which natively supports endpoint detection - the model is trained to figure out when a user's turn ended. This always works better than VAD.
https://soniox.com/docs/stt/rt/endpoint-detection
Soniox also wins the independent benchmarks done by Daily, the company behind Pipecat.
https://www.daily.co/blog/benchmarking-stt-for-voice-agents/
You can try a demo on the home page:
Disclaimer: I used to work for Soniox
Edit: I commented too soon. I only saw VAD and immediately thought of Soniox which was the first service to implement real time endpoint detection last year.
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I'm using them, how has it been like working there? I see they have some consumer products as well. I wonder how they get state of the art for such low prices over the competition.
If you read the post, you'll see that I used Deepgram's Flux. It also does endpointing and is a higher-level abstraction than VAD.