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+# [WIP] SNAC 🍿
+
+Multi-**S**cale **N**eural **A**udio **C**odec (SNAC) compressess 44.1 kHz audio into discrete codes at a low bitrate.
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+It encodes audio into hierarchical tokens similarly to SoundStream, EnCodec, and DAC (see the image
+on the left). However, SNAC introduces a simple change where coarse tokens are sampled less frequently,
+covering a broader time span (see the image on the right).
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+This can not only save on bitrate, but more importantly this might be very useful for language modeling approaches to
+audio generation. E.g. with coarse tokens of ~10 Hz and a context window of 2048 you can effectively model a
+consistent structure of an audio track for ~3 minutes.
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+![snac.png](img%2Fsnac.png)
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