would be interesting to characterize the behavior of the encoder (ie; how does it differ from a mel warped spectrum... or what is the warping that it learns?)

would be interesting to characterize the behavior of the encoder (ie; how does it differ from a mel warped spectrum... or what is the warping that it learns?) also would be kinda neat to see something that is pretrained in this way, and then does a small amount of humans in the loop training iterations to see if quality improves or perhaps an uncovering of something previously unknown about human auditory perception...