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Music codecs are a vital aspect of audio codec research, and ultra low-bitrate compression holds significant importance for music transmission and generation. Due to the complexity of music backgrounds and the richness of vocals, solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yaoxun Xu , Hangting Chen , Jianwei Yu , Wei Tan , Rongzhi Gu , Shun Lei , Zhiwei Lin , Zhiyong Wu

We present VCNAC, a variable channel neural audio codec. Our approach features a single encoder and decoder parametrization that enables native inference for different channel setups, from mono speech to cinematic 5.1 channel surround…

Discrete speech tokenization is a fundamental component in speech codecs. However, in large-scale speech-to-speech systems, the complexity of parallel streams from multiple quantizers and the computational cost of high-time-dimensional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Rongkun Xue , Yazhe Niu , Shuai Hu , Zixin Yin , Yongqiang Yao , Jing Yang

Speech codecs serve as bridges between continuous speech signals and large language models, yet face an inherent conflict between acoustic fidelity and semantic preservation. To mitigate this conflict, prevailing methods augment acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xin Zhang , Lin Li , Xiangni Lu , Jianquan Liu , Kong Aik Lee

The use of audio recordings of human speech to train LLMs poses privacy concerns due to these models' potential to generate outputs that closely resemble artifacts in the training data. In this study, we propose a speaker privacy-preserving…

This paper introduces FlowMAC, a novel neural audio codec for high-quality general audio compression at low bit rates based on conditional flow matching (CFM). FlowMAC jointly learns a mel spectrogram encoder, quantizer and decoder. At…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Nicola Pia , Martin Strauss , Markus Multrus , Bernd Edler

This paper introduces an end-to-end neural speech restoration model, HD-DEMUCS, demonstrating efficacy across multiple distortion environments. Unlike conventional approaches that employ cascading frameworks to remove undesirable noise…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Doyeon Kim , Soo-Whan Chung , Hyewon Han , Youna Ji , Hong-Goo Kang

The multi-codebook speech codec enables the application of large language models (LLM) in TTS but bottlenecks efficiency and robustness due to multi-sequence prediction. To avoid this obstacle, we propose Single-Codec, a single-codebook…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Hanzhao Li , Liumeng Xue , Haohan Guo , Xinfa Zhu , Yuanjun Lv , Lei Xie , Yunlin Chen , Hao Yin , Zhifei Li

Neural audio codecs (NACs), which use neural networks to generate compact audio representations, have garnered interest for their applicability to many downstream tasks -- especially quantized codecs due to their compatibility with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Ryo Aihara , Yoshiki Masuyama , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Jonathan Le Roux

Neural audio codecs have significantly advanced audio compression by efficiently converting continuous audio signals into discrete tokens. These codecs preserve high-quality sound and enable sophisticated sound generation through generative…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Xiaoyu Bie , Xubo Liu , Gaël Richard

Existing mainstream video customization methods focus on generating identity-consistent videos based on given reference images and textual prompts. Benefiting from the rapid advancement of joint audio-video generation, this paper proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Maomao Li , Zhen Li , Kaipeng Zhang , Guosheng Yin , Zhifeng Li , Dong Xu

Recent advancements in end-to-end neural speech codecs enable compressing audio at extremely low bitrates while maintaining high-fidelity reconstruction. Meanwhile, low computational complexity and low latency are crucial for real-time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Leyan Yang , Ronghui Hu , Yang Xu , Jing Lu

Recent multimodal systems often rely on separate expert modality encoders which cause linearly scaling complexity and computational overhead with added modalities. While unified Omni-models address this via Mixture-of-Expert (MoE)…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kin Wai Lau , Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman , Lai-Man Po , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão

The text generation paradigm for audio tasks has opened new possibilities for unified audio understanding. However, existing models face significant challenges in achieving a comprehensive understanding across diverse audio types, such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Ziqian Wang , Xianjun Xia , Xinfa Zhu , Lei Xie

Existing codecs are designed to eliminate intrinsic redundancies to create a compact representation for compression. However, strong external priors from Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have not been explicitly explored in video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Pingping Zhang , Jinlong Li , Kecheng Chen , Meng Wang , Long Xu , Haoliang Li , Nicu Sebe , Sam Kwong , Shiqi Wang

Recent advances in omni-modal large language models have enabled remarkable progress in joint vision-audio understanding. However, prevailing architectures rely on modality-specific encoders with a \emph{video-coarse, audio-dense} design --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Detao Bai , Shimin Yao , Weixuan Chen , Chengen Lai , Yuanming Li , Zhiheng Ma , Xihan Wei

Speech codecs serve as bridges between speech signals and large language models. An ideal codec for speech language models should not only preserve acoustic information but also capture rich semantic information. However, existing speech…

Neural speech codecs aim to compress input signals into minimal bits while maintaining content quality in a low-latency manner. However, existing neural codecs often trade model complexity for reconstruction performance. These codecs…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yuzhe Gu , Enmao Diao

This paper proposes StreamCodec, a streamable neural audio codec designed for real-time communication. StreamCodec adopts a fully causal, symmetric encoder-decoder structure and operates in the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Xiao-Hang Jiang , Yang Ai , Rui-Chen Zheng , Zhen-Hua Ling

Lineart colorization is a critical stage in professional content creation, yet achieving precise and flexible results under diverse user constraints remains a significant challenge. To address this, we propose OmniColor, a unified framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xulu Zhang , Haoqian Du , Xiaoyong Wei , Qing Li
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