Opus

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

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Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

5

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What Wikipedia says

Opus is a free and open source lossy audio coding format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed for efficient low-latency encoding of both speech and general audio.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Opus (audio format)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Software: Xiph.Org Foundation Screenshot: VulcanSphere, GPL, via Wikimedia Commons.