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Low Complexity Communication Codec (LC3)
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Low Complexity Communication Codec (LC3) is the default software codec for the nRF5340 Audio application, conformant to the `Bluetooth® LE Audio specifications`_ (Bluetooth 5.2).
For more information about the codec usage in the application, see the :ref:`application documentation page <nrf53_audio_app>`.

The nrfxlib module includes the :file:`lc3/include/sw_codec_lc3.h` and :file:`lc3/src/sw_codec_lc3.c` files that form a translation layer for using a standardized API in the nRF5340 Audio application.

For the terms and conditions for using the LC3 codec, see :file:`license.txt` and :file:`attribution.txt` at :file:`lc3/`.

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Low Complexity Communication Codec QDID
   The Low Complexity Communication Codec associated with this version of the |NCS| comes with the QDID #156294.

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