2 papers
eess.AS2026
SemiCodec: Bridging Speech Tokenization and High-fidelity Reconstruction with Semi-discrete Representations
Kecan Mao, Nan Xu, Zhaoyang Meng +4
Speech representation learning requires a discrete modeling interface while preserving high waveform fidelity. Existing approaches rarely achieve both: discrete tokens ease modelin…
cs.SD2026
AffectCodec: Emotion-Preserving Neural Speech Codec with Block-Diagonal Residual FSQ
Zhaoyang Meng, Zhengyao Ma, Kecan Mao +2
Neural speech codecs have become the discrete interface between raw audio and speech language models, yet they remain optimized primarily for acoustic reconstruction fidelity, whic…