polyvoice 0.6.5

Speaker diarization — who spoke when. Rust + ONNX, no Python runtime overhead.

polyvoice

Speaker diarization for Rust — who spoke when, without Python.

Production-ready speaker diarization that runs on CPU, fits in 30 MB, and outperforms AHC clustering with automatic K-means speaker count detection.

Speaker_0: 0.0s - 12.3s
Speaker_1: 14.1s - 28.7s
Speaker_0: 31.2s - 45.0s

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At a glance

	polyvoice	pyannote 3.1	whisperX
VoxConverse DER	14.12%	~12%	~15%
Model size	~30 MB	~100 MB	~1 GB
Runtime	CPU only	GPU recommended	GPU required
Dependencies	Zero (ONNX)	PyTorch + ONNX	PyTorch + faster-whisper
Languages	Rust / Python / C / CLI	Python only	Python only
Streaming	Yes	No	No

~80% of pyannote's accuracy at 10× less RAM and no GPU.

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Install

# Rust
cargo add polyvoice --features onnx

# Python
pip install polyvoice

# CLI
cargo install polyvoice --features cli

Quick start — Rust

use polyvoice::models::ModelRegistry;
use polyvoice::pipeline_v2::hybrid::HybridPipeline;
use polyvoice::segmentation::PowersetSegmenter;
use polyvoice::embedder::ResNet34Adapter;
use polyvoice::clusterer::KMeansClusterer;
use polyvoice::types::SampleRate;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Models auto-download on first run
    let registry = ModelRegistry::default()?;
    let models = registry.ensure_for_profile(polyvoice::types::Profile::Balanced)?;

    let segmenter = PowersetSegmenter::new(&models.segmenter_path)?;
    let embedder = ResNet34Adapter::new(&models.embedder_path, 4)?;
    let clusterer = KMeansClusterer::new(20); // auto-k via silhouette

    let pipeline = HybridPipeline::new(
        Box::new(segmenter),
        Box::new(embedder),
        Box::new(clusterer),
    );

    let (samples, _sr) = polyvoice::wav::read_wav("meeting.wav")?;
    let result = pipeline.run(&samples, SampleRate::new(16000).unwrap())?;

    for turn in &result.turns {
        println!("{}: {:.1}s - {:.1}s", turn.speaker, turn.time.start, turn.time.end);
    }
    Ok(())
}

Quick start — Python

import polyvoice

pipeline = polyvoice.Pipeline.balanced("models/")
result = pipeline.run(samples, sample_rate=16000)

for turn in result["turns"]:
    print(f"{turn['speaker']}: {turn['start']:.1f}s - {turn['end']:.1f}s")

Quick start — CLI

# Download models once
polyvoice download-models --profile balanced

# Diarize
polyvoice diarize meeting.wav --output meeting.rttm

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Benchmarks

Pipeline	Dataset	Files	DER	Notes
Hybrid + K-means	VoxConverse-test	232	14.12%	Auto-k, no threshold tuning
Hybrid + AHC	VoxConverse-test	232	18.77%	Manual threshold 0.40
Legacy (Silero + AHC)	VoxConverse-test	232	~14%	Baseline pipeline
Hybrid + K-means	VoxConverse-test	10	13.48%	Subset
Hybrid + AHC	VoxConverse-test	10	15.03%	Subset
Hybrid + K-means	e2e smoke	1	4.43%	26 s clip

K-means auto-k uses silhouette-based k selection with single-speaker detection (no more 20-speaker predictions on 1-speaker files). It beats AHC by 4.65% DER on the full VoxConverse benchmark without any manual threshold tuning.

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What makes it different

• Automatic speaker count — K-means auto-k detects how many speakers are in the recording. No more guessing thresholds.
• Single-speaker guardrail — embeddings too similar? Returns 1 speaker instead of hallucinating clusters.
• Overlap-aware — PowersetSegmenter detects overlapping speech regions; embeddings are masked to exclude overlaps before clustering.
• Streaming & batch — OnlineDiarizer for real-time, OfflineDiarizer for files.
• Cross-platform — Linux, macOS, Windows; x86_64 and aarch64.
• Hardened — Miri (memory safety), Loom (concurrency), cargo-fuzz (4 targets), model signing (Minisign).

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Architecture

┌─────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│ Audio Bytes │ --> │ Embedding       │ --> │ Speaker Cluster │ --> Turns
│ (f32 PCM)   │     │ Extractor       │     │ (AHC or K-means)│
└─────────────┘     └─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘
       │                    │                       │
       v                    v                       v
  Powerset VAD      WeSpeaker ResNet34      Silhouette auto-k
  (10s windows,     (2s windows, 256-dim)   (pairwise cosine
   1s hop)                                  distance cache)

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License

MIT