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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by xnx on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:51PM (#43284417)
Every once in awhile the stars align and I randomly get an "HD" voice call. It's disorienting to both me and the other party how good the quality is.
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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by DecentShoes on Friday March 07, 2025 @03:39AM (#43288345)
HD Voice is genuinely what it's called:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business-insig...

They really do sound alot better. It always reminds me of the first time I ever made a FaceTime call, in 2010, and the high quality audio was just as interesting as the video.

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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by spockz on Friday March 07, 2025 @12:31PM (#43292144)
It is the reason why we switched to using FaceTime audio. The sound quality is so much better than over the normal voice line. I don’t know how to reliably get HD Voice.
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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by xnx on Friday March 07, 2025 @12:40PM (#43292216)
Another thing ruined by the cell companies. They should be dumb pipes that don't even know what they're carrying.
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