Script with find and ex

i want to run a utility from the terminal for all the files in a directory. The utility has an input file name and output file name as parameters. The filenames have spaces and the utility is not taking the names. Can someone help me with a script where i can do the following
find . -name *.opus
for each of the files found above I need to run this command
opusdec "name of the file form above find" "name of the file from above find with an extention wav"
I wrote this script but it is not working
ListOfFiles=`find . -name *.opus
for i in $ListOfFiles
do
    optfile="${i}.wav"
    ./opusdec $i outfile
done
thanks for your help.

Looks like you're missing a backtick
Change ListOfFiles=`find . -name *.opus to ListOfFiles=`find . -name *.opus`
$() is preferred. Try
ListOfFiles=$(find . -name *.opus)

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>
>
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>> Hello.
>>
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named anchors to a
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href="/glossary.html#Blogging">Blogging</a>
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>>
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>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>>
>>
>> Lance
>

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