What is the difference between .nist and .snd?
- Name
- NIST Sphere
- Sound File
- Extension
- .nist
- .snd
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.)
- Description
- 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.
- Generic sound format used by a variety of programs; may be a Macintosh sound resource (from Mac OS Classic), an AKAI MPC audio sample, a generic Amiga sound, or other audio file.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-nist
- audio/basic
- Wikipedia
- .snd on Wikipedia