Speex
Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP (VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail).
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Speech Communications Internet Phone Telephony Archiving Compression |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Revised |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Windows Windows Mac OS X SymbianOS |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 24 Jul 2008 11:29
Changes: This release adds support for acoustic echo cancellation with multiple microphones and multiple loudspeakers. It also adds an API for decorrelating loudspeaker signals to improve multi-channel performance. A few bugs were fixed in the echo canceller, jitter buffer, and preprocessor. At this point, the API for 1.2 should be stable and only a few very minor additions are planned.
- 04 Feb 2008 14:01
Changes: The most obvious change in this release is that all the non-codec components (preprocessor, echo cancellation, and jitter buffer) have been moved to a new libspeexdsp library. Other changes include a new jitter buffer algorithm and resampler improvements/fixes. This is also the first release where libspeex can be built without any floating point support. To do this, the float compatibility API must be disabled (--disable-float-api or DISABLE_FLOAT_API) and the VBR feature must be disabled (--disable-vbr or DISABLE_VBR).
- 24 May 2007 07:15
Changes: The RAM requirement for wideband has gone down drastically (by more than two times). A new resampler module has been added, providing fast arbitrary sampling rate conversion. The echo canceller has also been improved. A bug in 1.2beta1 that made the echo canceller unstable has been fixed. The echo canceller should now converge faster, and should be robust and tolerant of incorrect capture-playback synchronization. The preprocessor has also been greatly improved. Not only should the quality be better, but it is now fully converted to fixed-point. At last, early TriMedia support (incomplete) has been merged.
- 04 Sep 2006 10:27
Changes: This release brings many significant improvements. The quality has been improved at the encoder and the decoder. This includes enhancer improvements, high-pass filters, and fixes for minor regressions in previous 1.1.x releases. Memory use has been greatly reduced (more than 50%), especially for fixed-point and narrowband. In general, CPU requirements have gone down and the Blackfin port has been sped up significantly. Non-codec improvements include an extension to the echo canceller API and a Speex-independent version of the jitter buffer. The echo canceller is also more robust.
- 12 Mar 2006 22:12
Changes: The main improvement in this release is that the echo canceller has now been converted to fixed-point arithmetic. The experimental Vorbis-based masking model (use --enable-vorbis-psy as an argument to the configure script) has also been improved and is now better and actually usable. Several other bugs have also been fixed.
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