New AI Speech Codec Cuts Audio Size 90% While Maintaining Quality
New AI Speech Codec, FocalCodec, cuts audio size by 90% while maintaining natural sound quality. Uses focal modulation networks for efficient low-bitrate speech coding.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called New AI Speech Codec Cuts Audio Size by 90% While Maintaining Natural Sound Quality. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter. Overview Introduces FocalCodec for efficient low-bitrate speech coding Uses focal modulation networks to improve compression quality Achieves better performance than previous methods at 6kbps Maintains high speech quality while reducing computational costs Demonstrates strong results across multiple languages and speakers Plain English Ex...