Wed Nov 2 02:19:26 2022 (*6952cd93*):: this is awesome https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/22/11/01/228240/metas-ai-powered-audio-codec-promises-10x-compression-over-mp3 +public! *** Meta’s AI-Powered Audio Codec Promises 10x Compression Over MP3 – Slashdot *** Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says this technique could dramatically improve the sound quality of speech on low-bandwidth connections, s… *** entertainment.slashdot.org
(*6952cd93*):: mp3 was roughly a megabyte a minute for decent audio quality… so can they really really shrink that to a kilobyte a minute for high quality audio?? sounds insane but then… it’s almost like a specialized midi with a dictionary of samples computed by AI to procedurally reconstruct something that passes as the original audio signal