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[garymmi]

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I used torch 1.7.1, run vad example, error as below

Downloading: "https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/archive/master.zip" to /home/nick/.cache/torch/hub/master.zip
/data/nick/Python-3.6.3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torchaudio/backend/utils.py:54: UserWarning: "sox" backend is being deprecated. The default backend will be changed to "sox_io" backend in 0.8.0 and "sox" backend will be removed in 0.9.0. Please migrate to "sox_io" backend. Please refer to pytorch/audio#903 for the detail.
'"sox" backend is being deprecated. '
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "vad.py", line 7, in
force_reload=True)
File "/data/nick/Python-3.6.3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/hub.py", line 370, in load
model = _load_local(repo_or_dir, model, *args, **kwargs)
File "/data/nick/Python-3.6.3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/hub.py", line 396, in _load_local
hub_module = import_module(MODULE_HUBCONF, hubconf_path)
File "/data/nick/Python-3.6.3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/hub.py", line 71, in import_module
spec.loader.exec_module(module)
File "", line 678, in exec_module
File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/data/nick/.cache/torch/hub/snakers4_silero-vad_master/hubconf.py", line 3, in
from utils_vad import (init_jit_model,
File "/data/inck/.cache/torch/hub/snakers4_silero-vad_master/utils_vad.py", line 9, in
torchaudio.set_audio_backend("soundfile") # switch backend
File "/data/nick/Python-3.6.3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torchaudio/backend/utils.py", line 47, in set_audio_backend
f'Backend "{backend}" is not one of '
RuntimeError: Backend "soundfile" is not one of available backends: ['sox', 'sox_io'].

[garymmi]

sorry , i forget to install soundfile

[BlingBlingss]

oh yeah

[snakers4]

if you do not like soundfile for some reason please feel free to make your version of utils and change this line

• https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/blob/master/utils_vad.py#L9

it used to be the best backend, but now they are changing it in favour of sox_io, so see for yourself
it is not necessary for any means, you can just use wave or scipy for wav files

we used torch audio in case people would use some exotic formats