| Name | DSS | WAV |
| Full name | Digital Speech Standard File | WAV - Waveform Audio File Format |
| File extension | .dss | .wav .wave |
| MIME type | audio/vnd.wave, audio/wav, audio/wave, audio/x-wav | |
| Developed by | International Voice Association | Microsoft & IBM |
| Type of format | Audio File | audio file format, container format |
| Description | Digital Speech Standard (DSS) is a proprietary compressed digital audio file format defined by the International Voice Association, a co-operative venture by Olympus, Philips and Grundig. DSS was originally developed in 1994 by Grundig with the University of Nuremberg. In 1997, the digital speech standard was released, which was based on the previous codec. It is commonly used on digital dictation recorders. Modern phycoacoustical codecs that perform nearly as well at only slightly higher bitrates have led to this speech coding standard being less used in modern voice recording equipment. | Waveform Audio File Format is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is the main format used on Windows systems for raw and typically uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format. |
| Technical details | Though a WAV file can contain compressed audio, the most common WAV audio format is uncompressed audio in the linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) format. Audio in WAV files can be encoded in a variety of audio coding formats, such as GSM or MP3, to reduce the file size. | |
| File conversion | DSS conversion | WAV conversion |
| Associated programs | Winamp, Apple QuickTime Player, Microsoft Windows Media Player, RealPlayer | ALLPlayer, VLC media player, Media Player Classic, MPlayer, RealPlayer, Winamp. |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Speech_Standard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV |
DSS (SP) 12 kHz. DS2 (QP) 16 kHz. WAV CCITT A-law 8 kHz 8 bit. WAV CCITT u-law 8 kHz 8 bit. WAV GSM 6.10 8 kHz. WAV GSM 6.10 11kHz. WAV IMA ADPCM 8 kHz 4 bit. WAV PCM 8 kHz 16 bit. WAV PCM 11 kHz 16 bit. WAV PCM 16 kHz 16 bit. WAV PCM 22 kHz 16 bit. WAV Philips CELP 8 kHz. WAV Philips CELP 16 kHz. WAV Philips LPC-BB. Switch Audio Converter Free is a fast and user-friendly way to convert almost any audio file. Just import the files you want, select the new format, and then click the convert button. Switch will then convert your audio file from over 40 file types into the format you need, including popular audio formats such as mp3, wav, or wma files.
Convert Audio from DSS to MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, WMA, etc
One of my friends send me a DSS file, neither my computer nor my iPhone supports to play it. I searched and found that many users choose to convert to MP3. But how to convert DSS to MP3?
DSS, abbreviation for Digital Speech Standard, is a proprietary compressed audio format specifically used for speech and later extensively used in most digital voice recorders and dictation devices. DSS can offer outstanding quality while reducing file size and so is very proper for transmitting via email, over internet as well as for archive. The developed version of DSS is DS2 which supports encryption. DSS is a proprietary audio format and so few applications can open this DSS files. As far as I know, only Olympus DSS Player Lite can help to play this DSS file. So in order to extend the DSS usage on more audio applications, many users choose to convert the DSS to the most commonly used MP3 format.
To convert DSS to MP3, a professional DSS to MP3 converter - Avdshare Audio Converter is needed. Avdshare Audio Converter is the most stable, easy-to-use and multifunctional any audio converter as well as the DSS to MP3 converter.
DSS Converter - Avdshare Audio Converter
- Convert any DSS or DS2 file to MP3 for playing DSS on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, PSP, Zune, Roku, Blackberry, Windows Media Player, QuickTime, etc.
- Convert any DSS or DS2 to WAV, AAC, AC3, FLAC, AIFF, OGG, WMA, etc for using DSS on more other audio applications.
- Convert any audio format to MP3 or to another new audio format.
- Extract DSS, MP3, WAV, AAC, etc from MP4, MOV, AVI, FLV, WMV, etc.
- Convert any DSS file, MP3 file, WAV file, etc while keeping the tags.
- Batch convert DSS to MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA, etc or batch convert any audio format to another one.
- Play DSS, MP3, WAV, etc and edit DSS, MP3, WAV, WMA, etc.
Guide on Converting DSS to MP3
The following converting DSS to MP3 guide also helps to convert DSS to WAV, AAC, WMA, FLAC, etc.
Make Preparation: Free download DSS to MP3 Converter
Free download the professional DSS to MP3 Converter - Avdshare Audio Converter (for Windows, for Mac), install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.
Step 1 Import DSS file
How To Convert To .wav File
Click the 'Add file' button to add any DSS file to Avdshare Audio Converter. Directly dragging and dropping DSS to Avdshare Audio Converter is also supported.
Step 2 Targeted output format setting
Choose MP3 as the output format by clicking 'Profile' button >'General Audio' category.
Convert Wav To Dss File Format Free
Step 3 Start the conversion
Convert .wav To .dss File Format
Click 'Convert' button to complete converting the saved DSS to MP3.