AMR and OGG explained
AMR is a narrowband speech codec designed for mobile phone calls. It is optimised specifically for the frequency range of the human voice and sounds poor for anything else.
OGG here means Ogg Vorbis, a royalty-free lossy codec that predates Opus. It is competitive with AAC and remains common in games.
- Where AMR files come from
- Voice memos and voicemail from older phones.
- Where OGG is used
- Game audio, Spotify's older streams and open-source projects.