{
 "id": "dct",
 "name": "DCT",
 "category": "audio",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "dct",
   "wav"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/1280"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q27960082"
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "NCH Dictation Audio File",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "max_offset": 1024,
      "pattern": "003200000000(01|52494646)"
     }
    ]
   }
  ],
  "priority_over": [
   "fmt/134"
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "DCT is a proprietary audio file format developed by NCH Software for their dictation software. As well as audio data, .dct files also contain dictation header information and can be encrypted.",
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/DCT",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1280",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/1280",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q27960082",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27960082",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "tools": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}