How to use VAD just for flags (start/stop mic operations)

[Karam000]

Hello

Thanks a lot for your amazing VAD solution. I'm facing a use case where I need to use VAD just for flags of active/inactive user speaking states.

I need to use the VoiceIsActive flag just to fire my logic, which includes usage of microphone and a custom audio chunking algorithm, and then do sth else when VoiceIsActive is false.

To give you a more accurate description, my use case is that I use an online speech recognition service which takes as input the user spoken audio chunked into little pieces for processing.

The problem is that VAD kinda "locks" the use of mic, in the sense that it needs to be working all the time to function properly.
But I need to have control over the audio recording logic so I can chunk it in the way I like, and then stop recording when VAD VoiceIsActive is false.

Hope I made my explanation clear.