papersSEP 12 04:00 UTC
ZipCodec: Ultra-Low-Frame-Rate Streaming Speech Coding
A new arXiv preprint introduces ZipCodec, a neural audio codec aimed at streaming speech at very low frame rates. The authors note that pushing bitrates down is easier than lowering frame rate, since fewer tokens per second means each token must carry more information. The work targets the trade-off between reconstruction quality and the amount of information each token encodes.