descriptinc/descript-audio-codec

State-of-the-art audio codec with 90x compression factor. Supports 44.1kHz, 24kHz, and 16kHz mono/stereo audio.

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This tool helps anyone working with audio files to drastically reduce their size for easier storage, sharing, or processing. You feed in standard high-quality audio files, and it produces much smaller, compressed versions that still sound excellent. It's ideal for audio engineers, podcasters, music producers, or researchers dealing with large audio datasets.

1,732 stars. Used by 4 other packages. Available on PyPI.

Use this if you need to compress large audio files by approximately 90x while maintaining very high audio fidelity across different types of sound like speech, music, or environmental recordings.

Not ideal if you require maximum compatibility with legacy audio systems that only support older, widely adopted compression formats.

audio-engineering sound-design media-production audio-archiving generative-audio
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MIT

Last pushed

Jan 26, 2026

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