speex: speex (Speech Codec) speex: speex: Speex is an Open Source/Free Software patent-free audio compression speex: format designed for speech. The Speex Project aims to lower the barrier speex: of entry for voice applications by providing a free alternative to speex: expensive proprietary speech codecs. Moreover, Speex is well-adapted to speex: Internet applications and provides useful features that are not present speex: in most other codecs. Finally, Speex is part of the GNU Project and is speex: available under the revised BSD license. speex: speex: