Speex is a [[BSD-3]] licensed audio codec for speech written in [[3. Reference/Software/Programming Languages/C|C]].
- [Website](https://www.speex.org/)
- [Source](https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/speex)
- Documentation
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speex)
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# Notability
Surpassed by the [[Opus]] codec.
Useful for speech down to bitrates as low as 5000 b/s.
Below 5kbps use [[Codec 2]] instead.
Useful at lower bitrates if you *want* it to sound bad.
# Philosophy
# OS Support
# Features
# Tips
# References
```cardlink
url: https://opus-codec.org/comparison/
title: "Comparison – Opus Codec"
description: "Opus, the open standard, high quality codec. Presentation, documentation, comparison with other formats, download links, source code repository."
host: opus-codec.org
```
```cardlink
url: https://youtu.be/iaAD71h9gDU
title: "Opus, the Swiss Army Knife of Audio Codecs - Jean-Marc Valin"
description: "Ever thought that there were too many audio codecs, each with its own special niche? So did we, so we made a new one (1). The difference is that Opus scales ..."
host: youtu.be
favicon: https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/f4449159/img/favicon_32x32.png
image: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iaAD71h9gDU/hqdefault.jpg
```