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Running Applications Part IV
TABLE 20-1
Sound Formats Supported by the SoX Utility
Description Description
.8svx .aiff Apple IIc/IIgs and SGI AIFF files.
May require a separate archiver to
work with these files.
.au, .snd .avr Audio Visual Research format, used
on the Mac.
.cdr .cvs Continuously variable slope delta
modulation, which is used for voice
mail and other speech
compression.
.dat .gsm Lossy speech compression (GSM
06.10), used to shrink audio data in
voice mail and similar applications.
.hcom Macintosh HCOM files. .maud Amiga format used to produce
sound that is 8-bit linear, 16-bit
linear, A-law, and u-law in mono or
stereo.
.ogg .ossdsp Pseudo file, used to open the OSS
/dev/dsp file and configure it to
use the data type passed to SoX.
Used to either play or record.
.prc .sf IRCAM sound files, used by the
CSound package and the -MixView
sample editor.
.sph .smp SampleVision files from Turtle
Beach, used to communicate with
different MIDI samplers.
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Speech audio SPHERE (Speech
Header Resources) format from
NIST (National Institute of
Standards and Technology).
Psion record.app format, newer
than the WVE format.
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