diff --git a/core/gallery/importers/importers.go b/core/gallery/importers/importers.go
index 0c93b2fa6..7b85cd0a5 100644
--- a/core/gallery/importers/importers.go
+++ b/core/gallery/importers/importers.go
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ var defaultImporters = []Importer{
 	// VLLMImporter so Qwen Omni repos (which also carry tokenizer
 	// files) route to vllm-omni rather than plain vllm.
 	&VLLMOmniImporter{},
+	// Embeddings / rerankers / detection / VAD (Batch 5)
+	// SileroVADImporter first — unique filename signal, cannot collide.
+	&SileroVADImporter{},
 	// Existing
 	&LlamaCPPImporter{},
 	&MLXImporter{},
diff --git a/core/gallery/importers/silero-vad.go b/core/gallery/importers/silero-vad.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c964a1e7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/gallery/importers/silero-vad.go
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+package importers
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/core/config"
+	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/core/gallery"
+	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/core/schema"
+	"go.yaml.in/yaml/v2"
+)
+
+var _ Importer = &SileroVADImporter{}
+
+// SileroVADImporter recognises the Silero Voice Activity Detection models
+// distributed as ONNX weights. The canonical packaging ships a file named
+// exactly "silero_vad.onnx" (see snakers4/silero-vad); we additionally
+// accept any ONNX file under the "snakers4" owner so community-mirrored
+// copies still route here. preferences.backend="silero-vad" overrides
+// detection.
+type SileroVADImporter struct{}
+
+func (i *SileroVADImporter) Name() string      { return "silero-vad" }
+func (i *SileroVADImporter) Modality() string  { return "vad" }
+func (i *SileroVADImporter) AutoDetects() bool { return true }
+
+func (i *SileroVADImporter) Match(details Details) bool {
+	preferences, err := details.Preferences.MarshalJSON()
+	if err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	preferencesMap := make(map[string]any)
+	if len(preferences) > 0 {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(preferences, &preferencesMap); err != nil {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+
+	if b, ok := preferencesMap["backend"].(string); ok && b == "silero-vad" {
+		return true
+	}
+
+	if details.HuggingFace != nil {
+		if HasFile(details.HuggingFace.Files, "silero_vad.onnx") {
+			return true
+		}
+		if strings.EqualFold(details.HuggingFace.Author, "snakers4") && HasONNX(details.HuggingFace.Files) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Fallback: hfapi recursion bug may leave HuggingFace nil — decide
+	// from the URI owner/repo. The snakers4 organisation ships only
+	// silero-* projects, so URI-level ownership is a safe signal.
+	if owner, repo, ok := HFOwnerRepoFromURI(details.URI); ok {
+		if strings.EqualFold(owner, "snakers4") && strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(repo), "silero") {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
+
+func (i *SileroVADImporter) Import(details Details) (gallery.ModelConfig, error) {
+	preferences, err := details.Preferences.MarshalJSON()
+	if err != nil {
+		return gallery.ModelConfig{}, err
+	}
+	preferencesMap := make(map[string]any)
+	if len(preferences) > 0 {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(preferences, &preferencesMap); err != nil {
+			return gallery.ModelConfig{}, err
+		}
+	}
+
+	name, ok := preferencesMap["name"].(string)
+	if !ok {
+		name = filepath.Base(details.URI)
+	}
+
+	description, ok := preferencesMap["description"].(string)
+	if !ok {
+		description = "Imported from " + details.URI
+	}
+
+	cfg := gallery.ModelConfig{
+		Name:        name,
+		Description: description,
+	}
+
+	// Prefer the canonical silero_vad.onnx filename when available so the
+	// emitted YAML points at the actual weights. Fall back to the HF repo
+	// path otherwise — users can adjust after import.
+	model := details.URI
+	if details.HuggingFace != nil {
+		for _, f := range details.HuggingFace.Files {
+			if filepath.Base(f.Path) == "silero_vad.onnx" {
+				cfg.Files = append(cfg.Files, gallery.File{
+					URI:      f.URL,
+					Filename: "silero_vad.onnx",
+					SHA256:   f.SHA256,
+				})
+				model = "silero_vad.onnx"
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		if model == details.URI && details.HuggingFace.ModelID != "" {
+			model = details.HuggingFace.ModelID
+		}
+	}
+
+	modelConfig := config.ModelConfig{
+		Name:                name,
+		Description:         description,
+		Backend:             "silero-vad",
+		KnownUsecaseStrings: []string{"vad"},
+		PredictionOptions: schema.PredictionOptions{
+			BasicModelRequest: schema.BasicModelRequest{Model: model},
+		},
+	}
+
+	data, err := yaml.Marshal(modelConfig)
+	if err != nil {
+		return gallery.ModelConfig{}, err
+	}
+	cfg.ConfigFile = string(data)
+
+	return cfg, nil
+}