ZipCodec: Ultra-Low-Frame-Rate Streaming Speech Coding
Paper โข 2609.11642 โข Published
A 6.25 Hz, 0.80 kbit/s streaming neural audio codec based on WavLM.
๐ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11642
๐ Project Page: https://lucadellalib.github.io/zipcodec-web/
๐พ GitHub: https://github.com/lucadellalib/zipcodec
See the readme at: https://github.com/lucadellalib/zipcodec
@article{dellalibera2026zipcodec,
title = {{ZipCodec}: Ultra-Low-Frame-Rate Streaming Speech Coding},
author = {Luca {Della Libera} and Cem Subakan and Mirco Ravanelli},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.11642},
year = {2026},
}
Base model
microsoft/wavlm-large