Definition of Awb

AWB may refer to:

• Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, an extremist right-wing political group in South Africa
• Federal Assault Weapons Ban, a provision of a United States federal law
• The Average White Band, a Scottish funk and R&B band
  • AWB (album), their album
• AWB Limited, an Australian company that oversees the exports of grain, particularly wheat (from the former Australian Wheat Board)
• Air Waybill, a receipt issued by an international courier company for goods and an evidence of the contract of carriage
• AMR-WB, a speech coding standard
• Auto White Balance, a feature of digital cameras and video cameras to adjust color balance

Adaptive Multi Rate – WideBand (AMR-WB) is a speech coding standard developed after the AMR using same technology like ACELP. The codec provides excellent speech quality due to wider speech bandwidth of 50–7000 Hz compared to narrowband speech codecs which in general are optimized for  POTS wireline quality of 300–3400 Hz. AMR-WB is codified as G.722.2, an ITU-T standard speech codec. A common file extension for AMR-WB is .awb.