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The mechanism that does this at scale is a learned neural codec built around residual vector quantization: an encoder compresses the waveform into a sequence of continuous frames, and each frame is then quantized in successive stages, each stage encoding what the previous stage’s codebook missed. SoundStream is the reference architecture, described by its authors as an end-to-end neural audio codec built on a convolutional encoder-decoder pair with a residual vector quantizer, trained jointly and shown to outperform prior codecs at comparable bitrates [ 7 ] . The mechanism gives a concrete, computable token rate. For a signal sampled at hertz, encoded with hop length h samples per frame,…
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The mechanism that does this at scale is a learned neural codec built around residual vector quantization: an encoder compresses the waveform into a sequence of continuous frames, and each frame is then quantized in successive stages, each stage encoding what the previous stage’s codebook missed. SoundStream is the reference architecture, described by its authors as an end-to-end neural audio codec built on a convolutional encoder-decoder pair with a residual vector quantizer, trained jointly and shown to outperform prior codecs at comparable bitrates [ 7 ] . The mechanism gives a concrete, computable token rate. For a signal sampled at hertz, encoded with hop length h samples per frame, and quantized with residual stages of codebook size K each, the bitrate is
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