The 'Overwrite' mode and the 'Insert' mode are options available in some speech recognition applications, and any of these options can be selected by the user to edit the data stored in a DSS file associated to his or her voice profile. Extensive compression specifications are implemented into these DSS files, which are affixed with the. These digital speech standard files are then saved in the DSS format, and some speech recognition applications associate or link each DSP file to the corresponding voice profile created by the user. The digital speech standard file format is used by speech recognition applications and digital voice recording programs, and these data files contain recorded voice data of the user.