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2026-08-27
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Audio & Speech
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13 min read
Representing Sound — Mel Spectrograms and Audio Tokens
Why speech models never eat raw waveforms, and what they eat instead: the chain from short-time Fourier transform to the mel scale to the log to discrete tokens. Covers the window-length tradeoff, why MFCCs dropped the DCT, how acoustic and semantic tokens differ, and the config mismatches that silently wreck audio in production.