- Extension
- .ape
- .nist
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Matthew T. Ashland
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Description
- Created by Matthew T. Ashland for Windows OS, APE format is an audio file that stores sound without any data loss. It is less popular due to the paid license restrictions.
- SPHERE (SPeech HEader Resources) is a file format defined by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and is used with speech audio. SoX can read these files when they contain μ-law and PCM data. It will ignore any header information that says the data is compressed using shorten compression and will treat the data as either μ-law or PCM. This will allow SoX and the command line shorten program to be run together using pipes to encompasses the data and then pass the result to SoX for processing.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-monkeys-audio
- audio/x-nist
