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Study finds voices should sound normal through walkie-talkies by now (theonion.com)
submitted 7 months ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/theonion@sh.itjust.works
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Citing numerous advancements in communication technology over the years, a study released Wednesday by researchers at Cornell University found that voices coming through walkie-talkies should sound normal by now. “After countless hours of fact-finding and analysis, we’ve concluded that it’s 2025, and the speaker shouldn’t be all crackly anymore,” said lead researcher Jerome Thompson, noting that at a time when humanity was developing quantum computers, it was “pretty messed-up” that voices in two-way radio transceivers still came out tinny and could be difficult to understand. [...]

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[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Airport gate announcements. Terminally unintelligible.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

That's the sort of pun I like.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

Or airplane announcements. The announcer also always has to have some obscure accent.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 3 points 7 months ago

Rawhrrbrrckrgkck. Crck Crrck? Frrrckahrrrah.Crx.

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

same with bluetooth headphones

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I assume the reason those bands are public use in the first place is because they're terrible and unfit for any real use? Otherwise they'd probably be reserved and regulated like other frequency bands are.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Nope. It's because the Community Band has been split into around 80 narrowband channels that are only suitable for LoFi AM transmissions. Digital transmissions that would sound as good as a mobile phone take up too much bandwidth.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

A big problem with Motorola type radios is user error. Mic too close to their mouth and off axis so the noise cancelling can't find them.