TS3-Codec: Transformer-Based Simple Streaming Single Codec
Neural audio codecs (NACs) have garnered significant attention as key technologies for audio compression as well as audio representation for speech language models. While mainstream NAC models are predominantly convolution-based, the performance of NACs with a purely transformer-based, and convolution-free architecture remains unexplored. This paper introduces TS3-Codec, a Transformer-Based Simple Streaming Single Codec. TS3-Codec consists of only a stack of transformer layers with a few linear layers, offering greater simplicity and expressiveness by fully eliminating convolution layers that require careful hyperparameter tuning and large computations. Under the streaming setup, the proposed TS3-Codec achieves comparable or superior performance compared to the codec with state-of-the-art convolution-based architecture while requiring only 12% of the computation and 77% of bitrate. Furthermore, it significantly outperforms the convolution-based codec when using similar computational resources.
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