What is "asao"

Asao (also known as Nellymoser audio codec) is a proprietary single-channel (mono) codec and compression format optimized for low- bitrate transmission of audio, developed by Nellymoser Inc.

Asao is both a Japanese surname and a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Eliran Asao (born 1985), footballer
• Keiichiro Asao (born 1964), politician
• Miwa Asao (born 1986), volleyballer
• Takuya Asao (born 1984), baseballer

Given name:

• (born 1926), Japanese physician, academic and medical researcher