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Name Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband Audio
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Identifiers MIME:  audio/amr-wb
PUID:  fmt/954
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Classification Audio
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Description Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) is a wideband speech audio coding standard based on Adaptive Multi-Rate encoding. AMR-WB provides a speech bandwidth of 50–7000 Hz compared to narrowband speech coders which in general offer around 300–3400 Hz. AMR-WB was developed by Nokia and VoiceAge.
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Developed by Nokia / Nokia
Supported by Nokia / Nokia
Source Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date 14 Sep 2016
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Last updated 14 Sep 2016
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