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Why Cellphones Make Humans Sound Like the Speak & Spell Robot

Yusuf C / Flickr When I wrote about why we should blame our hatred of phone calls on equipment and infrastructure rather than human habits, I talked about the digital switching infrastructure called pulse code modulation (PCM), which was rolled out starting in the 1960s. But there’s another factor I didn’t discuss: digital cell phones compress your voice even before it reaches the PCM exchange.

 

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