Show HN: Auricle – a 350 KB browser VAD

Category: ai-ml

Tags: vad, voice, wasm, rust, speech, browser

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Auricle is a browser-based voice activity detection (VAD) and turn-taking engine written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly, offering a 350 KB model that outperforms Silero VAD in speed and footprint. It provides a full conversation loop with barge-in, ducking, and transcript cleanup, plus React hooks and a drop-in replacement for vad-web.

Target audience: frontend developers building voice agents, web developers integrating speech interfaces

Repository: https://github.com/himanshu007-creator/auricle · TypeScript · MIT · 2 stars

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