diff --git a/.changeset/old-bananas-melt.md b/.changeset/old-bananas-melt.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..833d73b3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/old-bananas-melt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@livekit/agents-plugin-silero': patch
+---
+
+persist RNN state between VAD inference calls
diff --git a/plugins/silero/src/onnx_model.ts b/plugins/silero/src/onnx_model.ts
index e2fea330b..287052c7b 100644
--- a/plugins/silero/src/onnx_model.ts
+++ b/plugins/silero/src/onnx_model.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ export class OnnxModel {
   #contextSize: number;
   #sampleRateNd: BigInt64Array;
   #context: Float32Array;
-  // #state: Float32Array;
   #rnnState: Float32Array;
   #inputBuffer: Float32Array;
 
@@ -73,8 +72,8 @@ export class OnnxModel {
         sr: new Tensor('int64', this.#sampleRateNd),
       })
       .then((result) => {
-        // this.#state = result.output.data as Float32Array,
-        this.#context = this.#inputBuffer.subarray(0, this.#contextSize);
+        this.#rnnState.set(result.stateN!.data as Float32Array);
+        this.#context = this.#inputBuffer.slice(-this.#contextSize);
         return (result.output!.data as Float32Array).at(0)!;
       });
   }