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ZipCodec advances low-frame-rate streaming speech coding

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Researchers have developed ZipCodec, a novel neural audio codec designed for ultra-low-frame-rate streaming speech. Operating at 6.25 Hz and 0.80 kbps with a 160 ms latency, ZipCodec utilizes WavLM distillation and a transformer-based architecture. Experiments demonstrate its superior performance in reconstruction and downstream tasks compared to existing codecs at similar bitrates, while also achieving real-time inference on a CPU. AI

IMPACT This development could significantly improve the efficiency and quality of real-time speech generation and processing systems.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Luca Della Libera, Cem Subakan, Mirco Ravanelli ·

    ZipCodec: Ultra-Low-Frame-Rate Streaming Speech Coding

    arXiv:2609.11642v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural audio codecs are a fundamental component of modern speech generation systems. While recent codecs achieve increasingly low bitrates, reducing frame rate remains challenging, as each token must preserve more information whil…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    ZipCodec: Ultra-Low-Frame-Rate Streaming Speech Coding

    Neural audio codecs are a fundamental component of modern speech generation systems. While recent codecs achieve increasingly low bitrates, reducing frame rate remains challenging, as each token must preserve more information while maintaining reconstruction quality. We present Z…

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