Digital Speech Standard

• Company: Olympus, Phillips, Grundig
• Extension: DSS
• Samples:
  • http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/DSS/
  • http://dcdc.asu.edu/events/recent.php

DSS (Digital Speech Standard) is a format for voice recorders developed by Olympus, Phillips, and Grundig in 1994.

Player software is available at: http://downloads.olympus-europa.com/consumer/VoiceRecorder/631/Dssl211E.exe

Possible patents:

• US PAT 5,978,755 describes the file format
• US PAT 5,432,883 describes a possible audio codec by Olympus
• US PAT 5,140,638 describes a possible audio codec by Philips