Lyra: A New Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression

Lyra: A New Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression

Lyra: A New Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression

“Connecting to others online via voice and video calls is something that is increasingly a part of everyday life. The real-time communication frameworks, like WebRTC, that make this possible depend on efficient compression techniques, codecs, to encode (or decode) signals for transmission or storage. A vital part of media applications for decades, codecs allow bandwidth-hungry applications to efficiently transmit data, and have led to an expectation of high-quality communication anywhere at any time…”

Source: ai.googleblog.com/2021/02/lyra-new-very-low-bitrate-codec-for.html