Speex is an audio codec designed specifically for recording and compressing speech. As the VoIP industry is invaded by patented and expensive voice-compression codecs, Speex hopes to bring a free, open standard to the world. The talk will cover a bit about the development of Speex and its applications to Internet telephony, streaming, PLUG, Linux.conf.au 2003 and world peace.

Slides: Slides from this talk are available in PDF format [25kb].