Descript Audio Codec

Descript Audio Codec (DAC) is a high-fidelity, general neural audio codec, currently at version 1.0.0. It enables compression of audio (supporting 16kHz, 24kHz, and 44.1kHz sampling rates) into discrete codes at very low bitrates, achieving approximately 90x compression for 44.1 kHz audio at 8 kbps while maintaining exceptional fidelity. It is designed to be universal, working across various audio domains including speech, music, and environmental sounds, and can serve as a drop-in replacement for codecs like EnCodec in audio language modeling applications. The library maintains an active development pace with regular updates.