SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03312v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 15:45:42 GMT
• Title: SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec
• Authors: Neil Zeghidour, Alejandro Luebs, Ahmed Omran, Jan Skoglund, Marco Tagliasacchi
• Abstract summary: We present SoundStream, a novel neural audio system that can efficiently compress speech, music and general audio. SoundStream relies on a fully convolutional encoder/decoder network and a residual vector quantizer, which are trained jointly end-to-end. We are able to perform joint compression and enhancement either at the encoder or at the decoder side with no additional latency.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We present SoundStream, a novel neural audio codec that can efficiently compress speech, music and general audio at bitrates normally targeted by speech-tailored codecs. SoundStream relies on a model architecture composed by a fully convolutional encoder/decoder network and a residual vector quantizer, which are trained jointly end-to-end. Training leverages recent advances in text-to-speech and speech enhancement, which combine adversarial and reconstruction losses to allow the generation of high-quality audio content from quantized embeddings. By training with structured dropout applied to quantizer layers, a single model can operate across variable bitrates from 3kbps to 18kbps, with a negligible quality loss when compared with models trained at fixed bitrates. In addition, the model is amenable to a low latency implementation, which supports streamable inference and runs in real time on a smartphone CPU. In subjective evaluations using audio at 24kHz sampling rate, SoundStream at 3kbps outperforms Opus at 12kbps and approaches EVS at 9.6kbps. Moreover, we are able to perform joint compression and enhancement either at the encoder or at the decoder side with no additional latency, which we demonstrate through background noise suppression for speech.

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