speex: Speex ( A Free Codec For Free Speech ) speex: speex: The Speex is a patent-free, Open Source/Free Software voice codec speex: Unlike other codecs like MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, Speex is designed to speex: compress voice at bitrates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible speex: applications include VoIP, internet audio streaming, archiving of speex: speech data (e.g. voice mail), and audio books. In some sense, it is speex: meant to be complementary to the Ogg Vorbis codec. speex: speex: speex: