speex
brew install speex
v1.2.1
BSD-3-Clause
Open-source audio codec optimized for speech compression, written in C.
Why you might care
Speex provides excellent compression ratios for voice data at low bitrates, making it ideal for VoIP, voice messaging, and embedded systems. It's a shared library dependency for applications needing speech codec support; you'll need it if building software that decodes or encodes Speex-compressed audio streams.
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Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://speex.org/
- Brew formula source: Formula/s/speex.rb
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