Speex is an audio compression format designed especially for speech. It is well-adapted to internet applications and provides useful features that are not present in most other CODECs.
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Download (HTTP): https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/speex/speex-1.2.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 8ab7bb2589110dfaf0ed7fa7757dc49c
Download size: 884 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Download (HTTP): https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/speex/speexdsp-1.2.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b722df341576dc185d897131321008fc
Download size: 900 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/speex
This package consists of two separate tarballs. They need to be extracted and built independently.
Install Speex by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/speex-1.2.0 &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
As the root user:
make install
Now extract and install the speexdsp package:
cd .. &&
tar -xf speexdsp-1.2.0.tar.gz &&
cd speexdsp-1.2.0 &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/speexdsp-1.2.0 &&
make
Again, as the root user:
make install
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--enable-binaries: Builds two binaries
to encode and decode to and from the speex format.