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| license: apache-2.0 |
| base_model: |
| - microsoft/wavlm-large |
| pipeline_tag: audio-to-audio |
| datasets: |
| - mythicinfinity/libritts |
| library_name: pytorch |
| --- |
| |
| # ⚡ FocalCodec |
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| A low-bitrate single-codebook 16 / 24 kHz speech codec based on [focal modulation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11926). |
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| This repository contains the **25 Hz checkpoint** trained on **LibriTTS 960**, as described in the preprints. |
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| - 📜 **Preprints**: |
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| - [FocalCodec: Low-Bitrate Speech Coding via Focal Modulation Networks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04465) |
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| - [FocalCodec-Stream: Streaming Low-Bitrate Speech Coding via Causal Distillation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16195) |
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| - 🌐 **Project Page**: https://lucadellalib.github.io/focalcodec-web/ |
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| - 💾 **GitHub**: https://github.com/lucadellalib/focalcodec |
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| <img src="focalcodec.png" width="700"> |
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| ## ▶️ Quickstart |
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| See the readme at: https://github.com/lucadellalib/focalcodec |
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| ## @ Citing |
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| ``` |
| @article{dellalibera2025focalcodec, |
| title = {{FocalCodec}: Low-Bitrate Speech Coding via Focal Modulation Networks}, |
| author = {Luca {Della Libera} and Francesco Paissan and Cem Subakan and Mirco Ravanelli}, |
| journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.04465}, |
| year = {2025}, |
| } |
| |
| @article{dellalibera2025focalcodecstream, |
| title = {{FocalCodec-Stream}: Streaming Low-Bitrate Speech Coding via Causal Distillation}, |
| author = {Luca {Della Libera} and Cem Subakan and Mirco Ravanelli}, |
| journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.16195}, |
| year = {2025}, |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## 📧 Contact |
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| [luca.dellalib@gmail.com](mailto:luca.dellalib@gmail.com) |
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