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Digital audio files can come in variety of formats. The most common, all of which should be able to be transcribed by Express Scribe are: wav – standard audio file container format used mainly in Windows PCs. wma – the popular Windows Media Audio format owned by Microsoft. mp3 – MPEG Layer-3 format is the most popular format for downloading and storing music. dss – Digital Speech Standard files are an Olympus proprietary format. msv – a Sony proprietary format for Memory Stick compressed voice files. dvf – a Sony proprietary format for compressed voice files; commonly used by Sony dictation recorders. ra – a Real Audio format designed for streaming audio over the Internet. aiff – the standard audio file format used by Apple. It is like a wav file for the Mac. au – the standard audio file format used by Sun, Unix and Java. amr - AMR-NB audio, used primarily for speech. awb - AMR-WB audio, used primarily for speech. gsm – designed for telephony use in Europe; wav files can also be encoded with the gsm codec. mp4/m4a – MPEG-4 audio most often AAC but sometimes MP2/MP3. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format

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