What is the difference between .vqf and .nist?
- Extension
- .vqf
- .nist
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Yamaha
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- 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.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-twinvq
- audio/x-nist
- Sample
- sample.vqf
- Wikipedia
- .vqf on Wikipedia