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You're describing "full-duplex" communication (or sometimes just called "duplex").
In practice, that's not always a "continuous line of communication". As long as messages can go in both directions at the same time, it's full-duplex.
Compare this to a walkie-talkie. With walkie-talkie, you're constantly transmitting or receiving. But when you push the button to speak, you can't hear anything until you let go of the button. This is because it can only transmit or receive (half-duplex).
As a general rule, VoIP should be duplex. Voice notes (on any platform) would be half-duplex (you can't listen and record at the same time).
Something that can muddy the waters with VoIP and other real-time voice methods is noise cancelling and bandwidth/data reduction methods. Your device might try to reduce wind noise, avoid sending data when you aren't talking, etc. In doing that, sometimes it interferes in a way that makes your brain feel like your call isn't a "continuous line". That might sound like a completely dead line (no line static) that makes you feel like the call cutout. Or the other person's noise reduction algorithm might cut or clip some of their audio.
Oh, also SimpleX lets you do both voice notes and audio calls.
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