1 The Speex project aims to build an open-source, patent-free voice
2 codec. Unlike other codecs like MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, Speex is
3 specially designed for compressing voice at low bitrates in the
4 8-32 kbps/channel range. Possible applications include Voice over
5 IP (VoIP), internet audio streaming, archiving of speech data (e.g.
6 voice mail), and audio books. In some sense, it is meant to be
7 complementary to the Ogg Vorbis codec.