Google's New Lyra Voice Codec + AV1 Aim For Video Chats Over 56kbps Modems In 2021

Google's AI team has announced "Lyra" as a very low bit-rate codec for speech compression designed for use-cases like WebRTC and other video chats... With a bit rate so low that when combined with the likes of the AV1 video codec could potentially allow video chats over 56kbps Internet connections...