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Format

Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband Audio

Summary

Name
Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband Audio
Identifiers
  • MIME: audio/amr-wb
  • PUID: fmt/954
Format type
Audio
Description
Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) is a wideband speech audio coding standard based on Adaptive Multi-Rate encoding. AMR-WB provides a speech bandwidth of 50–7000 Hz compared to narrowband speech coders which in general offer around 300–3400 Hz. AMR-WB was developed by Nokia and VoiceAge.
File extensions
awb
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Developed by
Nokia / Nokia
Supported by
Nokia / Nokia

Internal signatures

AMR-WB

Note
BOF: #!AMR-WB 0x0A Format description: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4867

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
2321414D522D57420A
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V88

    Release date
    27 September 2016

    Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband Audio: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.

    Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband Audio: Full entry added.