Any critique on the actual code, utility of the tool, premise of the idea?

It definitely works. I tested a five second audio clip at 2kbs. It’s about 15 manual copy pastes at 200 character limit…but it works.

This isn’t going to be used it’s a very manual process…but I’m glad I can do it!

So, hex encoding of the aes cipher made it bigger. base 85 is slightly smaller than 64. The goal was to make it copy paste safe I think that’s the best option

Good point, I guess using hexadecimal would shrink the data even further than using base64.

The compression was implemented to reduce the audio input drastically. It can compress audio down to 6kb/s and you can still interpret voice clearly.

I should try and optimize even further to shrink the final payload.