Google applies ML to design the Lyra low bitrate audio codec

[HEXUS]

Lyra has been tuned for speech with ML analysis of thousands of hours of chat in 70 languages.

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[Irien]

I'm assuming that "AVI" (rather archaic video container format) in the final paragraph should be AV1 (recent optimised video codec), although it could just be a font issue.

[LSG501]

I'm assuming that "AVI" (rather archaic video container format) in the final paragraph should be AV1 (recent optimised video codec), although it could just be a font issue.

Yeah it's a typo in article, google blog says AV1 codec.

[lumireleon]

like how Youtube has better audio than VLC

[GinoLatino]

like how Youtube has better audio than VLC

You are comparing apples and oranges...

[3dcandy]

like how Youtube has better audio than VLC

You are comparing apples and oranges...

Google and traffic cones?

[lumireleon]

Before we jump, the audio sounds much better through Youtube, maybe its due to sound optimisations using machine learning when streaming or the players on the PC are terrible in handling audio.