2 papers
cs.SD2026
AugCodec: A Low-Bitrate Disentangled Neural Speech Codec via Data Augmentation
Dongmei Wang, Xiaohang Sun, Yang Liu +10
We propose AugCodec, a low-bitrate disentangled neural speech codec that leverages data augmentation to decompose speech into three distinct components: semantic, speaker, and pros…
cs.SD2026
AffectCodec: Emotion-Preserving Neural Speech Codec for Expressive Speech Modeling
Jiacheng Shi, Hongfei Du, Xinyuan Song +3
Neural speech codecs provide discrete representations for speech language models, but emotional cues are often degraded during quantization. Existing codecs mainly optimize acousti…