### Opus

<sup><sup>It doesn't stand for anything either >:(</sup></sup>

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- Developed in 2012 by Xiph.Org
- Fully Open Standard and Royalty Free
- Very good software support
- Low latency, music or speech optimized audio codec
- Supports:
    - 16-bit sampling depth only
    - 48kHz sampling rate
    - 255 audio channels
    - 256 kbit/s/channel bitrate

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##### Music

<audio controls src="media/samples/music.opus">Opus Music Sample</audio>

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"The Show Must Be Go" by Kevin MacLeod

Licensed under [CC-BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en)
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##### Voice

<audio controls src="media/samples/voice.opus">Opus Voice Sample</audio>

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LibriVox recording of "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

Read by Moira Fogarty
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Note:
Commonly used for low latency voice applications (Discord, Skype (new), Teams, Source Engine 1&2, Zoom, basically anything WebRTC)
Also commonly used for music playback (YouTube, Spotify)
Typical latency is 27ms for default frame size
2-way Bluetooth audio codec

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