VCON

Powerline in, WAV out (or the other way round). Runs entirely in your browser.

1. THE INPUT FILE

or pick a public clip from the archive (0 listed; private mail is never offered):

No archive clips in this deployment: upload a file instead.

2. THE SWITCHES

ABOUT THIS TOOL

Recreates
VCON.EXE v1.4, "VCON Voice File Conversion Utility", Talking Technology, Inc. (Turbo C 1987).
Date
1 Oct 1990
Who likely wrote it
Talking Technology, Inc. (the voice-card vendor). No person's name is in the program.
What changed in the web version
  • WAV is a new source and target (the original had no such format). PC and PU are the two Powerline I formats this archive holds; the BigMouth and Powerline II formats are not offered.
  • Reading a PC file uses the card's own decoder by default (the exact delta table of the voice card's driver), which is finer than VCON's integer tables; the "VCON tables" option gives what VCON itself would have produced.
  • Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you upload leaves it.
Kept on purpose (the original's bugs and habits)
  • The 40-byte header of a PC/PU file is read and thrown away; the output gets 40 ZERO bytes. A header is never copied.
  • A PU output loses its first sample; a PC output drops a last odd code.
  • The "input samples" figure counts one extra code fetched at the end of the file.
Ground truth
inventory/exe_c/vendor_tools/VCON/ and scripts/decode-card.js