Optimizing Neural Speech Codec for Low-Bitrate Compression via Multi-Scale Encoding
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| author | Yang, Peiji Wang, Fengping Zhong, Yicheng Wei, Huawei Wang, Zhisheng |
| author_facet | Yang, Peiji Wang, Fengping Zhong, Yicheng Wei, Huawei Wang, Zhisheng |
| contents | Neural speech codecs have demonstrated their ability to compress high-quality speech and audio by converting them into discrete token representations. Most existing methods utilize Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ) to encode speech into multiple layers of discrete codes with uniform time scales. However, this strategy overlooks the differences in information density across various speech features, leading to redundant encoding of sparse information, which limits the performance of these methods at low bitrate. This paper proposes MsCodec, a novel multi-scale neural speech codec that encodes speech into multiple layers of discrete codes, each corresponding to a different time scale. This encourages the model to decouple speech features according to their diverse information densities, consequently enhancing the performance of speech compression. Furthermore, we incorporate mutual information loss to augment the diversity among speech codes across different layers. Experimental results indicate that our proposed method significantly improves codec performance at low bitrate. |
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| spellingShingle | Optimizing Neural Speech Codec for Low-Bitrate Compression via Multi-Scale Encoding Yang, Peiji Wang, Fengping Zhong, Yicheng Wei, Huawei Wang, Zhisheng Sound Audio and Speech Processing Neural speech codecs have demonstrated their ability to compress high-quality speech and audio by converting them into discrete token representations. Most existing methods utilize Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ) to encode speech into multiple layers of discrete codes with uniform time scales. However, this strategy overlooks the differences in information density across various speech features, leading to redundant encoding of sparse information, which limits the performance of these methods at low bitrate. This paper proposes MsCodec, a novel multi-scale neural speech codec that encodes speech into multiple layers of discrete codes, each corresponding to a different time scale. This encourages the model to decouple speech features according to their diverse information densities, consequently enhancing the performance of speech compression. Furthermore, we incorporate mutual information loss to augment the diversity among speech codes across different layers. Experimental results indicate that our proposed method significantly improves codec performance at low bitrate. |
| title | Optimizing Neural Speech Codec for Low-Bitrate Compression via Multi-Scale Encoding |
| topic | Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15749 |