"""WAI source-side neural encoder for `wai.neural.mimi`. Mimi (Kyutai) at 24 kHz, 12.5 Hz frame rate, 8 codebooks of 2048. Designed for real-time speech LLM use cases. Token rate is among the lowest of any high-quality neural audio codec (~1.1 kbps), which makes it the right pick when the wire-byte budget dominates. Wire format (uniform with all wai.neural.