arXiv:2602. 15491v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural audio codecs (NACs) typically encode the short-term energy (gain) and normalized structure (shape) of speech/audio signals jointly within the same latent space.
arXiv:2608. 15369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lossy audio compression algorithms traditionally rely on psychoacoustic modeling and frequency-domain representations (e.
arXiv:2603. 05310v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While existing audio watermarking techniques have achieved strong robustness against traditional digital signal processing (DSP) attacks, they remain vulnerable to neural compression.
arXiv:2603. 08683v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive "language" models (LMs) trained on raw waveforms can be repurposed for lossless audio compression, but prior work is limited to 8-bit audio, leaving open whether such approaches work for practical settings (16/24-bit) and can compete with existing codecs.
arXiv:2608. 05727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Audio Codecs are widely adopted in speech generation and editing.
arXiv:2607. 08545v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end neural audio models achieve high-fidelity compression and generation.
Neural audio codecs are a key component of speech processing pipelines, compressing audio into discrete tokens for downstream modeling. However, existing codecs struggle to balance reconstruction quality with token efficiency, often encoding perceptually irrelevant information such as background noise and recording artifacts at the expense of linguistically and acoustically meaningful content.
arXiv:2606. 16969v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low frame rates in neural audio codecs are attractive for autoregressive speech synthesis, where the generation cost scales linearly with the sequence length.
arXiv:2606. 02739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio tokenizers serve as the discrete interface between continuous audio and Audio Language Models (ALMs), but existing tokenizers often struggle to support both understanding and generation.
arXiv:2603. 08173v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantization has become essential for the efficient deployment of speech processing systems.
arXiv:2606. 06743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The popularity of neural audio codecs as speech tokenizers has surged with the advent of Multimodal Large Language Models.
arXiv:2607. 15298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A conventional codec stores a video as compressed pixel data.
arXiv:2604. 14606v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universal speech enhancement (USE) aims to restore speech signals from diverse distortions across multiple sampling rates.