- Extension
- .snd
- .amr
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.)
- Nokia
- Description
- 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.
- An AMR file is an audio file saved in a compressed audio format developed by Ericsson. It is used by many 3G cell phones for voice recordings such as MMS messages. AMR files incorporate the Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction (ACELP) algorithm, which is designed to efficiently compress human speech audio.
- MIME Type
- audio/basic
- audio/amr
