Format
NCH Dictation Audio File
Summary
- Name
- NCH Dictation Audio File
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1280
- Format type
- Audio
- Description
- DCT is a proprietary audio file format developed by NCH Software for their dictation software. As well as audio data, .dct files also contain dictation header information and can be encrypted.
- File extensions
-
dct - Source
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
NCH Dictation Audio File
- Note
- Format consists of header, then RIFF WAVE audio data, which can be PCM or MP3. The audio data may also be encrypted, in which case the RIFF chunk is not visible, but a flag is set. The file may also include a transcription file, again for which a flag is set.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 1024
- Byte Sequence
003200000000(01|52494646)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V96
- Release date
- 21 January 2020
NCH Dictation Audio File: Signature submitted by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
NCH Dictation Audio File: Full entry added. Submitted by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.