Libfishsound is a wrapper around the existing codec libraries and provides a consistent, higher-level programming interface. it has been designed for use in a wide variety of applications; it has no direct dependencies on annodex or ogg encapsulation, though it is most commonly used in conjunction with liboggz to decode or encode ogg encapsulated vorbis or speex files.

this package contains debugging symbols useful for tracing bugs in the libfishsound1 package.