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Neural audio codecs are foundational to speech language models. It is expected to have a low frame rate and decoupled semantic and acoustic information. A lower frame rate codec can reduce the ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel neural audio codec, named AP-Codec+, which is an improved version of APCodec. The AP-Codec+ takes the audio amplitude and phase spectra as the coding object, and ...

DisCoder is a neural vocoder that leverages a generative adversarial encoder-decoder architecture informed by a neural audio codec to reconstruct high-fidelity 44.1 kHz audio from mel spectrograms.