- Extension
- .aac
- .cvsd
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- Adaptive Digital Technologies
- Description
- Compressed audio file similar to an .MP3 file, but offers several performance improvements; examples include a higher coding efficiency for both stationary and transient signals, a simpler filterbank, and better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz; maintains quality nearly indistinguishable from the original audio source.
- Continuously Variable Slope Delta Modulation Audio is a headerless format used to compress speech audio for applications such as voice mail.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-aac
- audio/x-cvsd
