Convert your MP3 files to WMA audio. MP3 (MPEG1/2 Audio Layer 3) is an efficient and lossy compression format for digital audio, offers a variety of different bit rates, an MP3 file can also be encoded at higher or lower bit rates, with higher or lower resulting quality. NOTE: If downloading in Chrome, you may see a warning message that DS2 Converter is not commonly downloaded and could be dangerous. This is a frequent warning from Chrome for many softwares, and is unnecessary in the case of DS2 Converter.
Convert Ds2 Files
| Name | DSS | MP3 |
| Full name | Digital Speech Standard File | MP3 - MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III |
| File extension | .dss | .mp3 |
| MIME type | audio/mpeg, audio/MPA, audio/mpa-robust | |
| Developed by | International Voice Association | Fraunhofer Institute |
| Type of format | Audio File | Digital audio |
| 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. | MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is an audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players. |
| Technical details | The use of lossy compression is designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent the audio recording and still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio. An MP3 file that is created using the setting of 128 kbit/s will result in a file that is about 1/11 the size of the CD file created from the original audio source. | |
| File conversion | DSS conversion | MP3 conversion |
| Associated programs | Winamp, Apple QuickTime Player, Microsoft Windows Media Player, RealPlayer | VLC media player, MPlayer, Winamp, foobar2000. |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Speech_Standard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 |