Engineering3 min read
I built a tiny neural audio codec. Then I listened to the results.A trained nonlinear encoder, vector-quantized codebook and decoder are interesting. An idealized low bitrate is not the same thing as good reconstructed speech.
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Engineering6 min read
Audio ML engineering: what the numbers actually meanI built five small speech and audio implementations and measured their behavior. ASR errors, turn detection, codecs, prosody and classifier ablations each have different ways to mislead you.
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