{
  "id": 6682520,
  "title": "ZipCodec: Ultra-Low-Frame-Rate Streaming Speech Coding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/zipcodec-ultra-low-frame-rate-streaming-speech-coding",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-10T14:49:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11642v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Neural audio codecs are a fundamental component of modern speech generation systems. While recent codecs achieve increasingly low bitrates, reducing frame rate remains challenging, as each token must preserve more information while maintaining reconstruction quality. We present ZipCodec, a streaming neural speech codec operating at 6.25 Hz and 0.80 kbps with a theoretical latency of 160 ms. Our…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}