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author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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date | Tue Aug 21 05:42:25 2018 +0300 (2018-08-21) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/speex/description.txt Tue Aug 21 05:42:25 2018 +0300 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ 1.4 +The Speex is a patent-free, Open Source/Free Software voice codec. Unlike other 1.5 +codecs like MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, Speex is designed to compress voice at bitrates 1.6 +in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include VoIP, internet audio 1.7 +streaming, archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail), and audio books. In some 1.8 +sense, it is meant to be complementary to the Ogg Vorbis codec. 1.9 + 1.10 +To use the Speex command line tools: 1.11 + 1.12 +``` 1.13 +% speexenc [options] input_file.wav compressed_file.spx 1.14 + 1.15 +% speexdec [options] compressed_file.spx output_file.wav 1.16 +``` 1.17 + 1.18 +The Speex codec has been obsoleted by [Opus](http://opus-codec.org/). It will 1.19 +continue to be available, but since Opus is better than Speex in all aspects, 1.20 +users are encouraged to switch.