- Extension
- .shn
- .sph
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- NIST
- Description
- The SHN file format, short for Shorten Compressed Audio File, is a type of compressed audio file developed for efficiently archiving high-quality digital audio. Shorten was one of the early lossless compression methods for audio, meaning it allows the exact original audio data to be reconstructed from the compressed data, without any loss in quality.
- 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/x-shn
- audio/x-nist-sph
