Opening a DS2 File

The DS2 file type is primarily associated with DSS Player.

DS2	File extension: DS2
	File type:	dictation

What is a DS2 file?

DS2 files mostly belong to DSS Player by Olympus. A DS2 file contains an audio recording (usually dictation) captured using DS-2400 or DS-5000 digital audio recorders manufactured by Olympus. These recorders encode DS2 files in the Digital Speech Standard Pro (Version 2 of DSS audio file format and codec. DS2 format offers high compression rates which results in smaller, high quality audio recordings. Users can optionally encrypt a dictation when saving it in DS2 format. You can play a DS2 file with DSS Player.

How to open a DS2 file

You need a suitable software like DSS Player from Olympus to open a DS2 file. Without proper software you will receive a Windows message "How do you want to open this file?" or "Windows cannot open this file" or a similar Mac/iPhone/Android alert. If you cannot open your DS2 file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file. Then click "Open with" and choose an application. You can also display a DS2 file directly in the browser:. Just drag the file onto this browser window and drop it.

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DS2 file format:

To find out what program is needed to open DS2 files, you need to determine the file format. A file format is determined by the file extension and signature, so JPEG images have the extension .jpg and the first bytes in the file are ÿØÿ. File extension, signature and file format must match; otherwise errors will occur when the file is opened. Knowledge is power - this also applies when dealing with unknown or faulty files. Below you will find our evaluation of the DS2 files:

DS2 is seldom used as a file extension and is mainly used by one program with a specific format. But the following two file formats are common:

• 85% of all DS2 files belong to Digital Speech Standard Pro audio. These files contain neither text nor words, but only data. A typical file size is 1 MB. The file type was developed only in the last few years. A usual file name is DS20180601.DS2.
• 7% of all DS2 files have the same signature 08 64 73 32 02 00 03 00 01. The content consists of illegible binary data, which can only be read and interpreted by the associated programs. DS2 files are between 500 KB and 2 MB in size.

The remaining 8% of all DS2 files are different files with different signatures. Tagged as dict. You can get all the details of your DS2 file by dragging it onto this page or by clicking the button "Choose your .ds2 file to analyze" above.