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Olympus Digital Speech Standard

File type: Audio and sound file

Files with dss extension can be mainly found as recorded voice audio files in the Olympus Digital Speech Standard file format.

Found 6 different file type records with the same dss filename suffix.

What is dss file?

File type category:
Audio and sound file

Date updated: November 10, 2024

File extension dss is primarily used for a high-compression DSS (Digital Speech Standard) file format, a simple and cost effective way of sending high-quality voice files attached to e-mails.

DSS file format is used by almost every Olympus Digital Voice Recorder. It is a 16-bit, mono sound format.

DSS format was developed by International Voice Association (IVA) founded by Olympus, Philips and Grundig.

Although dss files are usually only 1/12th to 1/20th the size of conventional WAVE files, there is no reduction in playback quality.

How to open dss file?

You can playback DSS files using several audio players.

How to convert dss file?

It may be possible to convert DSS audio to one of the more common audio format like MP3 or similar.

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Microsoft Windows

Action Replay saved game

File type category:
Game file

Date updated: November 29, 2017

Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.

The dss file extension is used by Action Replay cheating devices by Datel.

The Action Replay series of game enhancer has been thrilling gamers for over 20 years, and the current crop includes the most powerful cheat systems ever created. Only Datel covers has an enhancer for almost every current console and handheld gaming system.

DCC Active Designer screensaver file

File type category:
Graphics file

Date updated: October 25, 2011

The DSS file extension is used by old program called DCC Active Designer for files that contain screensaver data.

Digital Soup sound

File type category:
Audio and sound file

Date updated: January 21, 2019

Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.

The dss file extension is used for audio files sed by Digital Soup voices codecs in SuperPhone technology.

Souperphone is made possible by Voice over Internet Protocol (also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet Telephony, and Digital Phone) technology.

How to open dss file?

Use Digital Soup to work with *.dss files.

How to convert dss file?

Probably can be exported to other formats.

HEC-DSS hydrologic database

File type category:
Database file

Date updated: June 14, 2018

The dss file extension is used for in special format used by The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hydrologic Engineering Center Data Storage System, called HEC-DSS.

HEC-DSS is a database system designed to efficiently store and retrieve scientific data that is typically sequential.

Such data types include, but are not limited to, time series data, curve data, spatial-oriented gridded data, and others. The system was designed to make it easy for users and application programs to retrieve and store data.

HEC-DSS is incorporated into most of HEC’s major application programs.

How to open dss file?

Use HEC-DSSVue to open *.dss hydrologic database files.

How to convert dss file?

Possibly can be converted like any other database.

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Microsoft Windows

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Microsoft Windows

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Microsoft Windows

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Microsoft Windows

Synology DiskStation DSM configuration settings backup file

File type category:
Backup file

Date updated: February 15, 2017

File extension dss is also used for a DSM configuration settings backup file in Synology DiskStation.

DSM (DiskStation Manager) is the operating system of the Synology DIskStaion NAS (network attached storage) devices and is based on linux.

How to open dss file?

You can export/backup DSM settings to a dss file and import/restore it again by using Synology DiskStation Manager web interface.

How to convert dss file?

There is no way/reason to convert this file type.

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