3 papers
cs.SD2025
Low-Resource Audio Codec (LRAC): 2025 Challenge Description
Kamil Wojcicki, Yusuf Ziya Isik, Laura Lechler +8
While recent neural audio codecs deliver superior speech quality at ultralow bitrates over traditional methods, their practical adoption is hindered by obstacles related to low-res…
cs.SD2025
Improving Audio Classification by Transitioning from Zero- to Few-Shot
James Taylor, Wolfgang Mack
State-of-the-art audio classification often employs a zero-shot approach, which involves comparing audio embeddings with embeddings from text describing the respective audio class.…
eess.AS2025
Efficient Evaluation of Quantization-Effects in Neural Codecs
Wolfgang Mack, Ahmed Mustafa, Rafał Łaganowski +1
Neural codecs, comprising an encoder, quantizer, and decoder, enable signal transmission at exceptionally low bitrates. Training these systems requires techniques like the straight…