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Liquid AI releases 74M-parameter streaming audio codec, LiquidCodec

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Liquid AI has launched LiquidCodec, a 74 million parameter streaming audio codec designed to efficiently convert speech into tokens for language models and back into audio. The codec boasts impressive speed, achieving over 360 times real-time encoding on a single CPU thread, significantly outperforming previous models like Mimi. LiquidCodec also demonstrates strong performance in audio quality benchmarks, showing superior ViSQOL and lower mel distance compared to competitors such as X-Codec 2 and NanoCodec. AI

IMPACT This codec's efficiency and quality could accelerate the integration of advanced speech processing into AI applications and services.

RANK_REASON Product release of a new audio codec model by an AI lab. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=2 ai=1.0]

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Liquid AI releases 74M-parameter streaming audio codec, LiquidCodec

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  1. MarkTechPost TIER_1 Español(ES) · Asif Razzaq ·

    Liquid AI Releases LiquidCodec, a 74M-Parameter Streaming Audio Codec

    <p>Liquid AI released LiquidCodec, a ~74M-parameter streaming audio codec that powers LFM3-Audio-2B and LFM3-Omni-2B. It runs at 12.5 Hz with 12 codebooks and encodes about 361x faster than real time on a single CPU thread.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/20…

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Liquid AI Releases LiquidCodec, a 74M-Parameter Streaming Audio Codec Liquid AI released LiquidCodec, a ~74M-parameter streaming audio codec that powers LFM3-

    📰 Liquid AI Releases LiquidCodec, a 74M-Parameter Streaming Audio Codec Liquid AI released LiquidCodec, a ~74M-parameter streaming audio codec that powers LFM3-Audio-2B and LFM3-Omni-2B. It runs at 12.5 Hz with 12 codebooks and encodes about 361x faster than real time ... 📰 Sourc…

    LINKS marktechpost.com/…/liquid-ai-liquidcodec-…

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