What is the difference between .vqf and .gsm?
- Extension
- .vqf
- .gsm
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Yamaha
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
- Description
- A VQF file, standing for TwinVQ (Vector Quantized) Audio File, is a compressed audio format developed by NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) in the late 1990s. It was designed to offer higher compression rates compared to the more commonly used MP3 format, aiming to produce smaller file sizes while retaining a similar audio quality.
- 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-twinvq
- audio/x-gsm
- Sample
- sample.vqf
- Wikipedia
- .vqf on Wikipedia
- .gsm on Wikipedia