- Extension
- .amr
- .sph
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Nokia
- NIST
- Description
- An AMR file is an audio file saved in a compressed audio format developed by Ericsson. It is used by many 3G cell phones for voice recordings such as MMS messages. AMR files incorporate the Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction (ACELP) algorithm, which is designed to efficiently compress human speech audio.
- Waveform audio file created in the NIST SPHERE format, which is often used in speech recognition research; often contains a recording of a person speaking; can be provided as input to speech recognition systems.
- MIME Type
- audio/amr
- audio/x-nist-sph
