Search Results for "audio codecs"

AGC (Audiogen Codec) is a convolutional autoencoder based on the DAC architecture, which holds SOTA. We found that training with EMA and adding a perceptual loss term with CLAP features improved performance. These codecs, being low compression, outperform Meta's EnCodec and DAC on general audio as validated from internal blind ELO games. We trained (relatively) very low compression codecs in the pursuit of solving a core issue regarding general music and audio generation, low acoustic quality, and audible artifacts, which hinder industry use for these models. ...

...Its architecture incorporates a broader vector-quantization space, extended contextual windows, and improved attention networks, combined with multi-scale discriminators and inverse Fourier transform blocks to enhance waveform reconstruction. Extensive experiments show that WavTokenizer matches or surpasses previous neural codecs across speech, music, and general audio on both objective metrics and subjective listening tests.

...It achieves state-of-the-art results: across 36 audio and audio-visual benchmarks, it hits open-source SOTA on 32 and overall SOTA on 22, outperforming or matching strong closed-source models such as Gemini-2.5 Pro and GPT-4o. To reduce latency, especially in audio/video streaming, Talker predicts discrete speech codecs via a multi-codebook scheme and replaces heavier diffusion approaches.

AlphaPlayer is positioned as a multimedia or media-player library or application under ByteDance, likely intended to provide video/audio playback functionality, streaming, or media rendering capabilities. It probably serves as a foundation for building media-heavy applications — offering features like playback control, streaming support, adaptive media handling, and possibly integration with custom codecs or streaming protocols. For developers building web, desktop, or mobile applications needing stable audio/video playback and streaming — perhaps for ByteDance’s own media apps — AlphaPlayer could provide a ready-to-use or extendable library to embed media capabilities. ...

insofts-player Free media player, with which you can easily and conveniently view video and listen to audio files in various formats, without installing additional codecs. View streaming video, audio.   Constantly updating the online media library Additional features: sound recording, uart protocol support, speech to text

Subtitle Workshop is a free application for creating, editing, and converting text-based subtitle files. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would want.