The results are predictable, but impressive. [Sean]’s aim was to try and fit roughly 45 minutes of audio on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk. To pull this off, he looked far and wide for a codec fitting ...

The file extension ending in .dss stands for Digital Speech Standard (DSS). It is a proprietary audio compression format jointly developed by Olympus, Philips, and Grundig. This format finds its ...

Encoding digital audio data to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. Audio compression typically uses lossy methods, which eliminate bits that are not restored at the other end.