---
license: apache-2.0
library_name: torch
base_model:
- microsoft/wavlm-large
pipeline_tag: audio-to-audio
---

# 🗜️ ZipCodec

A 6.25 Hz, 0.80 kbit/s streaming neural audio codec based on [WavLM](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13900).

- 📜 **Paper**: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11642

- 🌐 **Project Page**: https://lucadellalib.github.io/zipcodec-web/

- 💾 **GitHub**: https://github.com/lucadellalib/zipcodec

<img src="zipcodec.jpg" width="700">

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## ▶️ Quickstart

See the readme at: https://github.com/lucadellalib/zipcodec

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## @ Citing

```bibtex
@article{dellalibera2026zipcodec,
    title   = {{ZipCodec}: Ultra-Low-Frame-Rate Streaming Speech Coding},
    author  = {Luca {Della Libera} and Cem Subakan and Mirco Ravanelli},
    journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.11642},
    year    = {2026},
}
```

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## 📧 Contact

[luca.dellalib@gmail.com](mailto:luca.dellalib@gmail.com)

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