What is the difference between .dss and .gsm?
- Extension
- .dss
- .gsm
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- International Voice Association
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
- 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.
- A lossy file format used to compress speech in Global Standard for Mobile (GSM) telecommunications. It is very effective for reducing audio file size. However, encoding and decoding audio signals severally is discouraged as the final product will have a lot of noise. Popular with some voice mail software but it is CPU intensive.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-dss
- audio/x-gsm
- Wikipedia
- .dss on Wikipedia
- .gsm on Wikipedia