diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 170ecd326..aebccda2f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ moondream = [ "einops~=0.8.0", "timm~=1.0.8", "transformers~=4.44.0" ]
 openai = [ "openai~=1.37.2" ]
 openpipe = [ "openpipe~=4.24.0" ]
 playht = [ "pyht~=0.0.28" ]
-silero = [ "silero-vad~=5.1" ]
+silero = [ "onnxruntime>=1.16.1" ]
 together = [ "together~=1.2.7" ]
 websocket = [ "websockets~=12.0", "fastapi~=0.112.1" ]
 whisper = [ "faster-whisper~=1.0.3" ]
diff --git a/src/pipecat/vad/data/__init__.py b/src/pipecat/vad/data/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/src/pipecat/vad/data/silero_vad.onnx b/src/pipecat/vad/data/silero_vad.onnx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b3e3a900c
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/pipecat/vad/data/silero_vad.onnx differ
diff --git a/src/pipecat/vad/silero.py b/src/pipecat/vad/silero.py
index 08d3534ea..c07ee2ae9 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/vad/silero.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/vad/silero.py
@@ -14,17 +14,94 @@
 
 from loguru import logger
 
+# How often should we reset internal model state
+_MODEL_RESET_STATES_TIME = 5.0
+
 try:
-    from silero_vad import load_silero_vad
-    import torch
+    import onnxruntime
 
 except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
     logger.error(f"Exception: {e}")
     logger.error("In order to use Silero VAD, you need to `pip install pipecat-ai[silero]`.")
     raise Exception(f"Missing module(s): {e}")
 
-# How often should we reset internal model state
-_MODEL_RESET_STATES_TIME = 5.0
+
+class SileroOnnxModel():
+
+    def __init__(self, path, force_onnx_cpu=True):
+        import numpy as np
+        global np
+
+        opts = onnxruntime.SessionOptions()
+        opts.inter_op_num_threads = 1
+        opts.intra_op_num_threads = 1
+
+        if force_onnx_cpu and 'CPUExecutionProvider' in onnxruntime.get_available_providers():
+            self.session = onnxruntime.InferenceSession(
+                path, providers=['CPUExecutionProvider'], sess_options=opts)
+        else:
+            self.session = onnxruntime.InferenceSession(path, sess_options=opts)
+
+        self.reset_states()
+        self.sample_rates = [8000, 16000]
+
+    def _validate_input(self, x, sr: int):
+        if np.ndim(x) == 1:
+            x = np.expand_dims(x, 0)
+        if np.ndim(x) > 2:
+            raise ValueError(f"Too many dimensions for input audio chunk {x.dim()}")
+
+        if sr not in self.sample_rates:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Supported sampling rates: {self.sample_rates} (or multiply of 16000)")
+        if sr / np.shape(x)[1] > 31.25:
+            raise ValueError("Input audio chunk is too short")
+
+        return x, sr
+
+    def reset_states(self, batch_size=1):
+        self._state = np.zeros((2, batch_size, 128), dtype='float32')
+        self._context = np.zeros((batch_size, 0), dtype='float32')
+        self._last_sr = 0
+        self._last_batch_size = 0
+
+    def __call__(self, x, sr: int):
+
+        x, sr = self._validate_input(x, sr)
+        num_samples = 512 if sr == 16000 else 256
+
+        if np.shape(x)[-1] != num_samples:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Provided number of samples is {np.shape(x)[-1]} (Supported values: 256 for 8000 sample rate, 512 for 16000)")
+
+        batch_size = np.shape(x)[0]
+        context_size = 64 if sr == 16000 else 32
+
+        if not self._last_batch_size:
+            self.reset_states(batch_size)
+        if (self._last_sr) and (self._last_sr != sr):
+            self.reset_states(batch_size)
+        if (self._last_batch_size) and (self._last_batch_size != batch_size):
+            self.reset_states(batch_size)
+
+        if not np.shape(self._context)[1]:
+            self._context = np.zeros((batch_size, context_size), dtype='float32')
+
+        x = np.concatenate((self._context, x), axis=1)
+
+        if sr in [8000, 16000]:
+            ort_inputs = {'input': x, 'state': self._state, 'sr': np.array(sr, dtype='int64')}
+            ort_outs = self.session.run(None, ort_inputs)
+            out, state = ort_outs
+            self._state = state
+        else:
+            raise ValueError()
+
+        self._context = x[..., -context_size:]
+        self._last_sr = sr
+        self._last_batch_size = batch_size
+
+        return out
 
 
 class SileroVADAnalyzer(VADAnalyzer):
@@ -41,7 +118,21 @@ def __init__(
 
         logger.debug("Loading Silero VAD model...")
 
-        self._model = load_silero_vad()
+        model_name = 'silero_vad.onnx'
+        package_path = "pipecat.vad.data"
+
+        try:
+            import importlib_resources as impresources
+            model_file_path = str(impresources.files(package_path).joinpath(model_name))
+        except BaseException:
+            from importlib import resources as impresources
+            try:
+                with impresources.path(package_path, model_name) as f:
+                    model_file_path = f
+            except BaseException:
+                model_file_path = str(impresources.files(package_path).joinpath(model_name))
+
+        self._model = SileroOnnxModel(model_file_path, force_onnx_cpu=True)
 
         self._last_reset_time = 0
 
@@ -59,7 +150,7 @@ def voice_confidence(self, buffer) -> float:
             audio_int16 = np.frombuffer(buffer, np.int16)
             # Divide by 32768 because we have signed 16-bit data.
             audio_float32 = np.frombuffer(audio_int16, dtype=np.int16).astype(np.float32) / 32768.0
-            new_confidence = self._model(torch.from_numpy(audio_float32), self.sample_rate).item()
+            new_confidence = self._model(audio_float32, self.sample_rate)[0]
 
             # We need to reset the model from time to time because it doesn't
             # really need all the data and memory will keep growing otherwise.