DSS to MP3 - Convert DSS to MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, etc

DSS (Digital Speech Standard), is a proprietary digital audio file format developed by the International Voice Association, a co-operative venture by Olympus, Philips and Grundig. DSS files are generated by digital voice recorders like Olympus Digital Voice Recorder and Philips SpeechMike. They are commonly used to create transcripts in professional environments like law firms. The DSS file format allows basic recording functionality (such as recording, playing, rewinding, etc.) as well as the ability to record in either insert or overwrite mode making it ideal for dictation.

There is a new version of DSS format called DS2 (DSS Pro), which is used by default on all the Olympus digital dictaphones: DS-2400, DS-3400, DS-5000 and DS-5000iD.

Since DSS is such a highly specialized audio format, it is not supported by many commonly used players like Windows Media Player, VLC, QuickTime, iTunes, etc, not to mention major portable devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android and so on.

To do the task quickly and successfully, you need to get a useful tool. While you search for an app, you may gain tons of information. In my opinion, I just trust Faasoft DSS Converter for Mac and Windows, which enjoy a high reputation of many years' for audio conversion.

With it, it gets easier to convert DSS to MP3, convert DSS to WAV, DSS to M4A, DSS to WMA, DSS to FLAC, etc and when the conversion is done, you can play DSS file anywhere without hassles. In fact, you have more than you would ever expect. It supports converting among almost all kinds of audio formats including MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, AC3, DTS, WMA, M4A, ALAC, OGG, OGA, XWM, 3GA, etc.

Moreover, with it you can do with your videos anything you can think of: cut, change bitrate/sample rate/audio channel, merge, split, adjust audio volume, take snapshot, even extract the audio from your video files.