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| Name | DSS | WAV |
| Full name | Digital Speech Standard File | WAV - Waveform Audio File Format |
| File extension | .dss | .wav .wave |
| MIME type | audio/vnd.wave, audio/wav, audio/wave, audio/x-wav | |
| Developed by | International Voice Association | Microsoft & IBM |
| Type of format | Audio File | audio file format, container format |
| Description | Digital Speech Standard (DSS) is a proprietary compressed digital audio file format defined by the International Voice Association, a co-operative venture by Olympus, Philips and Grundig. DSS was originally developed in 1994 by Grundig with the University of Nuremberg. In 1997, the digital speech standard was released, which was based on the previous codec. It is commonly used on digital dictation recorders. Modern phycoacoustical codecs that perform nearly as well at only slightly higher bitrates have led to this speech coding standard being less used in modern voice recording equipment. | Waveform Audio File Format is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is the main format used on Windows systems for raw and typically uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format. |
| Technical details | Though a WAV file can contain compressed audio, the most common WAV audio format is uncompressed audio in the linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) format. Audio in WAV files can be encoded in a variety of audio coding formats, such as GSM or MP3, to reduce the file size. | |
| Associated programs | Winamp, Apple QuickTime Player, Microsoft Windows Media Player, RealPlayer | ALLPlayer, VLC media player, Media Player Classic, MPlayer, RealPlayer, Winamp. |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Speech_Standard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV |