Sound File

File Extension: .wav, .xwm, .lip, .fuz

A Sound File is used for sound effects, voiced dialogue, and radios.

Files

Waveform Audio File Format

A .wav file is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. A .wav file should be encoded as PCM 44100kHz 16 bit mono for use in Fallout 4. See also on wikipedia.

Windows Media Audio (xWMA)

A .xwm file is Microsoft's xWMA, which is an extension of normal WMA v2 audio. See also on wikipedia.

Lip Sync

A .lip file contains data used for synchronizing an Actors facial movements along with spoken audio.

FUZ

A .fuz file is compressed XWM audio paired with a .lip file. These are used to give voices to characters in the game.

Tooling

• The Creation Kit includes tooling for working with sound files.
• There are community software projects that provided tooling for working with sound files.

See Also

• Sound
• Game Files Category