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Format

DSS Pro

Summary

Name
DSS Pro
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1008
Format type
Audio
Description
Digital Speech Standard is a proprietary audio file format for the storage of digital speech recordings, which was jointly developed and introduced by Olympus, Grundig and Philips. The DSS Pro (.ds2) format supports improved sound quality over the original Digital Speech Standard format, and also supports file encryption.
File extensions
ds2
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Relationships

Is subsequent version of

Internal signatures

Digital Speech Standard DSS Pro

Note
BOF: 0x03 'DS2'

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
03647332
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V90

    Release date
    30 March 2017

    DSS Pro: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.

    DSS Pro: Full entry added.