低比特率下提升语音编码质量,通过噪声先验引导的流匹配增强频谱细节。
CFMDCTCodec: A Low-Bitrate Neural Speech Codec with Noise-Prior-aware Conditional Flow Matching for MDCT-Spectral Enhancement

- 在MDCT域中结合轻量编码器与噪声先验引导的条件流匹配增强器。
- 在0.65 kbps下性能超越主流基线,接近大模型语音码率但参数更少。
- 适合低带宽通信场景,尤其对计算资源有限的设备友好。
在低比特率下实现高质量语音编码对带宽受限应用至关重要,但高压缩率导致关键信息严重丢失仍是难题。为此,我们提出CFMDCTCodec,一种完全在改进离散余弦变换(MDCT)域运行的低比特率神经语音编码器。该方法将轻量级编码-量化-解码结构与基于噪声先验的条件流匹配(CFM)频谱增强器结合:编码器紧凑离散化语音提取的MDCT谱,生成初步粗略重构;增强器则利用条件MDCT速度场滤波器与常微分方程(ODE)求解器,在基于MDCT幅度自适应的噪声先验指导下,恢复高频段感知重要区域并稳定低能与静音区域。最终通过逆MDCT重建语音。训练采用统一非对抗策略,联合优化重建、量化与CFM目标。客观与主观评估均表明,CFMDCTCodec在低比特率(如0.65 kbps)下优于现有基线,其感知质量接近大型编码器,但参数量与计算开销显著更低。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
High-quality speech coding at low bitrates is crucial for bandwidth-constrained applications, yet remains challenging due to the severe loss of quality-critical information in highly compressed representations. To overcome this challenge, we propose CFMDCTCodec, a low-bitrate neural speech codec that operates entirely in the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) domain. CFMDCTCodec integrates a lightweight encoder-quantizer-decoder-style MDCT-spectral codec with a noise-prior-aware, conditional-flow-matching (CFM)-based MDCT-spectral enhancer. Within this framework, the codec serves as a base module that compactly discretizes the MDCT spectrum extracted from speech and produces an initial coarse reconstruction, while the enhancer further restores fine-grained spectral details. The enhancer improves the decoded MDCT spectrum by integrating a conditional MDCT velocity-field filter with an ordinary differential equation (ODE) solver, under the guidance of an MDCT-derived magnitude-adaptive noise prior, aiming to emphasize perceptually significant high-energy regions while stabilizing low-energy and silent regions. Finally, the enhanced MDCT spectrum is reconstructed into the decoded speech using the inverse MDCT. When optimizing CFMDCTCodec, we adopt a unified non-adversarial training strategy that jointly combines reconstruction, quantization and CFM objectives. Both objective and subjective evaluations show that CFMDCTCodec outperforms competitive baselines in low-bitrate regimes, e.g., 0.65 kbps, while approaching the perceptual quality of large-scale codecs with significantly fewer parameters and computations.
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