2 papers
cs.SD2026
MeloCodec: Harnessing Melodic Priors for High-Fidelity Singing Voice Representation
Yizhong Geng, Wenxin Fu, Kecan Mao +7
Neural audio codecs serve as fundamental tokenizers for LLM-based audio generation. While semantic priors are widely exploited to enhance linguistic intelligibility, the integratio…
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…