Lossless audio over wireless links has long been constrained by bandwidth. In this interview, Alexander Tschekalinskij, Senior Engineer in the Low Delay Audio Coding department at Fraunhofer IIS, explains how LC3plus Lossless adapts to fluctuating bandwidth and what its recent inclusion in an ETSI standard means for the audio industry.
ELMOD-2.7B: A German LLM for Resource-Constrained Environments
With the “Efficient Language Model for On-Device Deployment” (ELMOD-2.7B), Fraunhofer IIS is releasing a compact large language model (LLM) optimized for German, specifically designed for use in resource-constrained environments. Now available on open-source platform Hugging Face, it addresses key challenges such as infrastructure cost, cloud dependency, and data privacy.
