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How much Bandwidth is consumed from voice communications such as when speaking to someone on Skype or over the phone, vs. the same words transmitted via text?

How much Bandwidth is consumed from voice communications such as when speaking to someone on Skype or over the phone, vs. the same words transmitted via text? Perhaps future communication applications can have a WaveNet on either end, which learns the voice of the person you're communicating with and then only sends text after a certain point in the conversation? I'm coming at this from a point of ignorance though, so correct me if I've made erroneous assumptions.

dest 10y ago
text communication is much lighter (a few bytes/s vs kb/s) but you may miss the non verbal contents of voice
- RandomInteger4 10y ago
  By non-verbal do you mean like ambient sound? Dogs barking, child yelling, garbage truck garbage trucking? I don't know. If they can do voice, then it might be possible to do ambient sounds of there is a separate nets trained with a library of ambient sounds where it's tuned not to be the same every time the sound plays like how when you have tiled graphics, there are algorithms that remove the unnatural sameness from one tile to the next. This could have interesting implications for Foley-artists of the 21st century. How likely would such a tech help lower budget companies who want to implement voice communication within their software, say for video games or similar? Hmm, now this has me wondering what implications this has for voice acting as well. EDIT: We can call the ambient sound symbols sent over the wire "Soundmojis" or "amojis" or "audiomojis"
  - dest 10y ago
    I was thinking about the voice intonation. For example the sentences "this is really great" or "how do you do? -> I'm fine, thank you" can have opposite meanings depending on the intonation. This explains a lot of the misunderstandings on written forums. It should be possible to train a neural network to catch those special intonations, but it is IMHO substantially harder than the initial project, with uncertain results.
    - RandomInteger4 10y ago
      Oh, right. I can't believe I forgot about intonation ... I should really get out and talk to people via voice more ...
kondro 10y ago
Less than 8kbps in most voice. It pales in comparison to the quantity of bandwidth consumed each day on video.

dest 10y ago

text communication is much lighter (a few bytes/s vs kb/s) but you may miss the non verbal contents of voice

RandomInteger4 10y ago
By non-verbal do you mean like ambient sound? Dogs barking, child yelling, garbage truck garbage trucking? I don't know. If they can do voice, then it might be possible to do ambient sounds of there is a separate nets trained with a library of ambient sounds where it's tuned not to be the same every time the sound plays like how when you have tiled graphics, there are algorithms that remove the unnatural sameness from one tile to the next. This could have interesting implications for Foley-artists of the 21st century. How likely would such a tech help lower budget companies who want to implement voice communication within their software, say for video games or similar? Hmm, now this has me wondering what implications this has for voice acting as well. EDIT: We can call the ambient sound symbols sent over the wire "Soundmojis" or "amojis" or "audiomojis"
- dest 10y ago
  I was thinking about the voice intonation. For example the sentences "this is really great" or "how do you do? -> I'm fine, thank you" can have opposite meanings depending on the intonation. This explains a lot of the misunderstandings on written forums. It should be possible to train a neural network to catch those special intonations, but it is IMHO substantially harder than the initial project, with uncertain results.
  - RandomInteger4 10y ago
    Oh, right. I can't believe I forgot about intonation ... I should really get out and talk to people via voice more ...

kondro 10y ago

Less than 8kbps in most voice. It pales in comparison to the quantity of bandwidth consumed each day on video.