Waveform Audio File Format
Abbreviation: WAVE
Identifiers:
Type | Id | |
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SIS ID | fWave | Copy ID to clipboardSIS ID copied |
LOCLibrary of Congress | fdd000001 |
Media type(s):
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audio/x-wav -
audio/wave -
audio/wav -
audio/vnd.wave
File extension(s): .wav[recommended], .wave
Functional domains:
- Audiovisual Source Language Data
Recommendations:
Centre | Domain | Level | Comments |
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ACDH-ARCHE | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
BAS | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
CLARIN-CH | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
CLARIN.SI | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
CLARINO_Bergen | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended |
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CLARINO_Bergen | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable |
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CLST | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
CMU | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
COCOON | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
DANS | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable |
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EKUT | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
FIN-CLARIN | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended |
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FIN-CLARIN | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable |
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HZSK | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended |
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IDS | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended |
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IDS | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable |
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ILC4CLARIN | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
LAC | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended |
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MI | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
MPI-PL | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
ORTOLANG | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
OTA | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended |
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OTA | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable |
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Sprakbanken | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended |
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Sprakbanken | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable |
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UdS | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
ZIM | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended |
Description:
Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced "wave") is an audio file format standard, developed by IBM and Microsoft, for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) bitstream format method for storing data in "chunks", and thus is also close to the 8SVX and the AIFF format used on Amiga and Macintosh computers, respectively. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows systems for raw and typically uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format. See: Wikipedia article for WAV.
Keywords: speech data, audio file format, container format