LiquidAI releases LiquidCodec, a 74M speech codec running fast on CPUs
Codec throughput, not model intelligence, may be the real constraint for on-device voice agents, and LiquidCodec targets exactly that layer with open weights and CPU-only speed. Teams building low-latency voice products on edge hardware — earbuds, glasses, vehicles — can benchmark it against Mimi or X-Codec 2 and deploy locally at Q4_0 precision without GPU dependency. Its open availability also makes it a practical drop-in for local speech pipelines.
