{"id":11017,"date":"2008-01-13T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/13\/on-the-quality-of-voice-in-the-phone-conversation\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T11:32:29","slug":"on-the-quality-of-voice-in-the-phone-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/13\/on-the-quality-of-voice-in-the-phone-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"On the quality of voice in the phone conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tom Evslin<\/a> has this interesting observation about the quality of voice in the traditional phone<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The bandwidth of the telephone connection between our homes and the telephone network hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t changed in my long lifetime. Although some noise has been eliminated in long distance calls (sometime and if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not on a cellphone), voices on the phone still sound like they did sixty-five years ago. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve trained ourselves to accept the clipped quality of a telephone voice with its lack of emotional overtones.
\nYou wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dream of listening to music over the phone. You expect and get much better sound quality from almost any radio and on TV. Movies have Dolby sound. But the telephone is still the telephone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He suggests that VoIP (think: Skype) is changing that.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Tom Evslin has this interesting observation about the quality of voice in the traditional phone: The bandwidth of the telephone connection between our homes and the telephone network hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t changed in my long lifetime. Although some noise has been eliminated in long distance calls (sometime and if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not on a cellphone), voices on the … Continue reading On the quality of voice in the phone conversation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,1291,1035,75,1143,1047],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-communications","tag-quality","tag-skype","tag-sound","tag-telephony","tag-voip"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t