How to convert your DS2 file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DS2 file.
- You'll see a preview.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert DS2 to another file type
The converter easily converts your DS2 file to various formats - free and online. No Media Player or extra software needed.
- DS2 to MP3
- DS2 to WAV
- DS2 to DSS
- DS2 to MP4
- DS2 to AAC
- DS2 to FLAC
- DS2 to OGG
- DS2 to WMA
- DS2 to M4A
- DS2 to AIFF
- DS2 to OPUS
- DS2 to ALAC
Convert a file to DS2
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Audio formats to DS2 with high quality output.
- MIDI to DS2
- AAC to DS2
- TTA to DS2
- AU to DS2
- WV to DS2
- DTS to DS2
- MID to DS2
- FLAC to DS2
- RA to DS2
- MP3 to DS2
- PCM to DS2
- WAV to DS2
About DS2 files
A .DS2 file is a high-efficiency audio recording created in the Digital Speech Standard Pro (DSS Pro) format, widely used by professional digital voice recorders from Olympus and Philips. Designed specifically for human speech, these files offer high compression ratios and metadata capabilities, such as author IDs and work types, making them a standard in legal and medical transcription workflows. However, the format presents significant accessibility challenges: it is proprietary and often heavily compressed with codecs that standard media players like Windows Media Player or VLC cannot interpret natively. Furthermore, .DS2 files often incorporate AES encryption to protect confidentiality, requiring a password and licensed software like Olympus ODMS or Philips SpeechExec just to listen to the content. This vendor lock-in makes sharing files with clients or transcriptionists difficult. To ensure universal playback and compatibility with automated transcription services, we recommend converting these files to MP3 for easy sharing and web use, or WAV for uncompressed archiving and editing. Just drag and drop your file to handle the conversion instantly.
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The DS2 Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our DS2 converter.