Speex Codec

[Spoon]

** Updated 24th January 2004 **
This is a very optimized voice only codec, currently it supports no tagging.

download:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/dBpowerAMP-codec-Speex.exe

311 KB

Changes from last beta - major bug fixes to ensure plays and encodes without loss of a few seconds, tags and tag editing work.

[Spoon]

Updated.

[MasterOfPuppets]

the quality is definitly improved before you updated, this codec is great.

the first few seconds are getting cut off for some reason, and sometimes the last few also

[tft]

Re: Speex Codec

I too can verify that the first 2-3 seconds seems to be getting cut-off.

Any idea on how to work around it (.spx -> .mp3/.wav) ?

BTW: speex-1.0.2 is released and its windows encoder/decoder are
available here,

http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/others.html

Can the above mentioned codecs be used without waiting for the
next beta release (I'm not sure what they will be) ? If so, what is
the procedure to getting them to work with dbpoweramp ?

[tft]

Re: Speex Codec

I also forgot to mention the following sites for more speex related codecs,

http://www.openacm.org

http://www.openacm.org/project.php?project=Speex+ACM

Hope those help bring this to reality sooner.

[Spoon]

Re: Speex Codec

I hope to look at it again in the next few days.

[tft]

Re: Speex Codec

I hope to look at it again in the next few days.

Any luck and/or improvements ?

Thanks.

[Spoon]

Re: Speex Codec

Not yet no.

[Lithp]

Re: Speex Codec

What is a voice only codec?
Thank you.

** Updated 10th June 2003 **
This is a very optimized voice only codec, currently it supports no tagging.

download:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/dBpowerAMP-codec-Speex.exe

300 ish KB

Changes from last beta - fixed compression modes (non worked correctly).

[rapture]

Re: Speex Codec

What is a voice only codec?
Thank you.

It just means the codec is written with voice recordings in mind rather than music. I've never used it but I'm guessing it would make songs sound pretty funky :P

You could use it for stuff like digital dictation or any other kind of speech only recording.

[Spoon]

Re: Speex Codec

Updated to Beta 3.

[tft]

Re: Speex Codec

Updated to Beta 3.

What's the URL to download this beta and why isn't it listed in
the "Codec Central" page anyways ?

I'd love to test it out and give you feedback, but even the last
one I tested was good enough to be available on the code-central
page; its prime time the general masses saw it and used it ;-)

Regards.

[Spoon]

Re: Speex Codec

Same location:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/dBpowerAMP-codec-Speex.exe

If I can get some feedback on this new beta it will go for release.

[tft]

Re: Speex Codec

Same location:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/dBpowerAMP-codec-Speex.exe

If I can get some feedback on this new beta it will go for release.

This version or release or whatever works great - I don't hear the
previous delay and have nothing but praise :-) Do please release
it and include it along side its sister codec's in 'Codec Central'; it
very much is ready.

Thanks Spoon for all your hard work !! and do please continue this
great effort (you should consider a linux port ;-).

Regards,

[Alex]

Re: Speex Codec

Hello guys,

I have accidentally bumped into this forum while trying to find some info on Speex codec. I would really appreciate if someone helps me to resolve some issues how to use this codec.

here is some info.

I am using Dialogic T1 card to receive voice (mu-law, 64Kbit / sec). Every time the application accumulates 1536 bytes of voice, it needs to compress and send it over IP.

I am stuck how to use Speex to compress it. The function looks like this:

void CompressAndSend (const char* cData, int iLength = /*1536*/ )
{
// What am I supposed to write here to compress it correctly?
}

thanks a lot