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license: mit
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license: mit
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tags:
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- speech
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- deep-learning
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- GAN
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- generative-model
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- RVQ
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# Descript Audio Codec
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๐ With Descript Audio Codec, you can compress **44.1 KHz audio** into discrete codes at a **low 8 kbps bitrate**. <br>
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๐ค That's approximately **90x compression** while maintaining exceptional fidelity and minimizing artifacts. <br>
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๐ช Our universal model works on all domains (speech, environment, music, etc.), making it widely applicable to generative modeling of all audio. <br>
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๐ It can be used as a drop-in replacement for EnCodec for all audio language modeling applications (such as AudioLMs, MusicLMs, MusicGen, etc.) <br>
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## Model Details
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### Model Description
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- **License:** MIT
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### Model Sources
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- **Repository:** [Github Repo](https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec)
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- **Paper:** [arXiv Paper: High-Fidelity Audio Compression with Improved RVQGAN
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](http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06546)
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- **Demo:** [Demo Site](https://descript.notion.site/Descript-Audio-Codec-11389fce0ce2419891d6591a68f814d5)
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## Uses
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The model is intended for compressing audio files containing speech, music and environmental sounds.
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### Out-of-Scope Use
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It is not intended to be used for compressing other file formats such as text, images, etc.
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## Bias, Risks, and Limitations
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Our model has difficulty reconstructing some challenging audio. It
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performs best for speech and has more issues with environmental sounds. It
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does not model some musical instruments perfectly, such as glockenspeil, or synthesizer sounds.
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## How to Get Started with the Model
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This model is meant to be used with our official repo linked above. We release the model here for redundancy purposes.
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Our code is able to pull the weights from their
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[original location on Github](https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec/releases/download/0.0.1/weights.pth).
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Please refer to the official [README](https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec#readme) for usage instructions.
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## Citation
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**BibTeX:**
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```
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@misc{kumar2023highfidelity,
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title={High-Fidelity Audio Compression with Improved RVQGAN},
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author={Rithesh Kumar and Prem Seetharaman and Alejandro Luebs and Ishaan Kumar and Kundan Kumar},
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year={2023},
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eprint={2306.06546},
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archivePrefix={arXiv},
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primaryClass={cs.SD}
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}
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```
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