I'm sure there are many unaffected, but it's a well-known and not uncommon issue. It has persisted for years.
3 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/46dnse/robot_vo...
2 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/6u4uw6/voice_qu...
2 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/6u55vj/robotic_...
11 months https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/apmkja/big_incr...
9 months https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/bd6o7v/robotic_...
8 months https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/bk63nd/low_ping...
https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/search?q=robot+voice&res...
Perhaps, but it's still better than a lot of the other options (especially for the price). It's particularly better the first party voice "solutions" in games that are utter crap.
Also in Europe but I have the complete opposite experience. I'm constantly impressed of how great voice in Discord works compared to other options.
Also in Europe, I've been using Discord almost daily for 5 years now, and always impressed by the voice quality.
Re:Dark Horse Discord
by hypertextcoffee on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:02AM
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I'm not sure how you've been using it for 5 years, when it's only been out for 4 (May 13th 2015)[0].
[0]https://www.pcgamer.com/one-year-after-its-launch-discord-is...
Re:Dark Horse Discord
by SweetLlamaMyth on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:40AM
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Rounding 4.7 years to 5 seems like a perfectly acceptable estimate for a comment.
I'm just one example, but I've been using it since launch day. So 5 years is getting close.
My friends and I were looking for a free solution. We tried WhatsApp for a bit but eventually stuck with Discord despite the quality because it allows us to just hop on and off arbitrarily. Nobody has to set up calls with the exact participants and do that all over again if someone else joins.
IME Discord voice quality has been awful, and that's just direct voice between two people; multiple times every session the call disintegrates, sometimes falling out entirely. 'Robotic sounding' is a description often used. I think region (mine's Europe) and server capacity in that region, might be an important factor in the perceived quality of Discord voice. Several times it's been so bad we have fallen back to other options, e.g., Teams.