Digital Speech Standard

Description
Digital Speech Standard (DSS) is a proprietary audio file format defined by the International Voice Association (IVA), which is a cooperative venture between Grundig, Olympus and Philips. It has recently been expanded to the DSS Pro format, which supports encryption. DSS files will use the extension .dss and DSS Pro uses the extension .ds2.

Information

 * US PAT 5,978,755 - Dictation device for the storage of speech signals
 * US PAT 5,432,883 - Voice coding apparatus with synthesized speech LPC code book
 * US PAT 5,140,638 - Speech coding system and a method of encoding speech

Software

 * Olympus DSS Player Lite (free, Windows)

Links

 * A sample .dss file
 * This brief blog entry notes that Olympus DSS Player Light v2.1.1 runs under Wine v0.9.46