- Extension
- .vqf
- .sph
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Yamaha
- NIST
- 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.
- 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-twinvq
- audio/x-nist-sph
