Arrrggggg, I hate it when I am talking to someone and they have that odd little pause in their speech cadence that is uncommonly longer than normal when they talk and it is impossible to predict and we end up talking over each other.
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Who would have thought all that telephone work I did years ago would ever do me any good? ?
Here's the skinny on "phone lag".?ÿ Other than folks that try to think while they're talking..instead of thinking before they speak; the problem is technical with telephony and is called latency.?ÿ Latency is the phenomenon that occurs when the circuit paths for calls cause an increasing delay in?ÿone signal but not necessarily in the other.?ÿ While you hear your own voice on your phone immediately, the party on the other end may not hear it for a half-second or so.?ÿ And it can change mid-conversation.
In its infancy, telephone engineers?ÿenhanced DC circuitry to keep things moving along the copper in a predictable manner.?ÿ The least amount of latency you will experience is a connection between to land lines.?ÿ But since fewer and fewer calls nowadays involve any?ÿcopper hanging on poles the latency (time lag) accumulated in digital call routing can at times become frustrating.?ÿ You also have to take into consideration you are only hearing 1/10th. to 1/60th. of what the other person is saying.?ÿ Cramming 256 voice conversation into a digital signal on a single fiber-optic strand and then unscrambling it at the other end is done with "sampling".?ÿ Most of the voice frequency signal is trashed and only a?ÿportion of the signal is transmitted, but the human ear can't detect it.?ÿ It's also one of the reasons music sounds so lousy over a telephone.
Don't be so frustrated with the people on the other end...they may be thinking the same thing you are... ??ÿ
When that happens, I give them I'll call you back.
There are apparently too many people listening in or else you are not listening to me.
When I am busy and need to finish a project, the ringers are off, headphonez ate on and a text message is the only way to reach me.
Serious latency doesn't come from the coding and multiplexing. Network being heavily loaded may contribute.
If the caller isn't from the same general area there could be a satellite hop involved, which does add a serious latency to one direction.?ÿ They try to not use satellite both ways when avoidable.
One of the big contributors to the both-talking problem is that cell phones only let you hear when you aren't talking, so you don't know when the other person is trying to interrupt.
