Bug#160609: ITP: speex -- Free Speech Coding
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
The Speex project aims to build an open-source (LGPL) patent-free
voice codec. Unlike other codecs like MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, Speex is
specially designed for compressing voice at low bit-rates in the 8-32
kbps/channel range. Possible applications include Voice over IP
(VoIP), Internet audio streaming, archiving of speech data (e.g. voice
mail), and audio books. In some sense, it is meant to be complementary
to the Ogg Vorbis codec.
Home page is at: http://speex.sourceforge.net/
A preliminary packaging of version 0.8.1 is done, will be uploaded to
Debian when some man pages are written and a linitan rpath warning
gets solved.
Jean-Marc Valin writes:
> > Let me know if, or when, you'd like me to add speex into Debian.
>
> Well, you can start doing it now, as long as you make sure people know
> that the current file format may not be definitive (just like when
> Vorbis was around beta). I think the file format should be frozen within
> 1-2 months at which point it will be ready for more general use.
>
> Jean-Marc
>
> --
> Jean-Marc Valin, M.Sc.A.
> LABORIUS (http://www.gel.usherb.ca/laborius)
> Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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