Audio Codec Python Packages

snac

Multi-Scale Neural Audio Codec (SNAC) compresses audio into discrete codes at a low bitrate

visqol-python

A pure Python implementation of Google's ViSQOL (Virtual Speech Quality Objective Listener) for objective audio/speech quality assessment.

ac3forge

A clean-room AC-3, E-AC-3 and AC-4 encoder and decoder in C++23, implemented from the published standards. It turns PCM into AC-3, E-AC-3 or AC-4 streams, turns mono sources placed and moved in 3D space into E-AC-3 with Joint Object Coding, and reads those streams back.

a1800-codec

An open source implementation of the GeneralPlus A1800 audio codec