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+## Linacodec: Highly compressive audio tokenizer for speech models.
+<p align="center">
+  <a href="https://huggingface.co/YatharthS/LinaCodec">
+    <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%97%20Hugging%20Face-Model-FFD21E" alt="Hugging Face Model">
+  </a>
+</p>
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+Linacodec is an audio tokenizer that compresses audio into just 12.5 tokens per second (171 bps) and decodes to 48khz audio!
+
+### Key benefits
+* Compression: 12.5 tokens/sec (60x more compressed than DAC).
+* Audio Quality: 48khz output (much clearer then 16khz/24khz which is the standard).
+* Encoder Speed: 200x realtime.
+* Decoder Speed: 400x realtime(even faster with batching)
+* Many Tasks: Indirectly even supports voice conversion, audio super-resolution, and audio denoising!
+
+### Why is this even useful?
+Audio tokenizers directly contribute to speed, quality, and capability. LinaCodec massively improves upon previous codecs.
+* Inference Speed: Enables TTS models to run 800x realtime, 8x faster than [MiraTTS](https://github.com/ysharma3501)!
+* Fast training: High-quality TTS models can be trained in less then 1 day.
+* Versatile: Works for both Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text unlike most other codecs.
+
+### Comparisons
+| Model | Total Tokens/Sec | Sample Rate |
+| :--- | :--- | :--- |
+| Linacodec | 12.5 | 48khz |
+| DAC | 774 | 44.1khz |
+| EnCodec | 300 | 24khz |
+| Xcodec2 | 50 | 16khz |
+| Mimi | 200 | 24khz |
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+Please check the repo for usage: https://github.com/johnwick123f/LinaCodec
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+Licence is CC-BY-4.0 meaning you can use it for any usecase(commercially/non-commercially) given you credit the original creator. Thank you.