I was thinking of exactly this when I read the article. The plot point being that when the bandwidth gets too low, the interpolation AI has to make lots of stu

I was thinking of exactly this when I read the article. The plot point being that when the bandwidth gets too low, the interpolation AI has to make lots of stuff up, you are not quite sure exactly what was said. I seem to remember the bandwidth in the book was very tiny, small number of bits per second (?) so the AI was taking the speech and compressing it into something more compressed than text then decompressing it at the other end into something that was more or less the same.