- Extension
- .shn
- .vox
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Dialogic
- 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.
- Audio file encoded in Dialogic's ADPCM (VOX) format, a format used for saving human speech audio; saves digitized voice data sampled at a low rate; enables the audio data size to be small while still maintaining clarity; used by computer telephony systems.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/voxware
