Editing Digital Speech Standard (section)

'''Digital Speech Standard''' (DSS) is a [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] [[Audio data compression|compressed]] digital [[audio file format]] defined by the [[International Voice Association]], a [[consortium]] of [[Olympus company|Olympus]], [[Philips]] and [[Grundig Business Systems]].

DSS was originally developed in 1994 by Grundig with the University of Nuremberg. In 1997, the digital speech standard was released, which was based on the previous [[codec]]. It is commonly used on [[digital dictation]] recorders. Modern psychoacoustical codecs that perform nearly as well at only slightly higher bitrates have led to this speech coding standard being less used in modern voice recording equipment.