Loving seeing how fast machine learning on audio is progressing things - great quality speech under 1kbps is real, and good quality music under 2.5kbps is a reality as well.
That's a CD of music on a floppy disk...I can't believe this hasn't had more coverage!
github.com/SonyCSLParis/codicodec
Encode and decode audio samples to/from continuous and discrete compressed representations! - SonyCSLParis/codicodec