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Are VOIP audio calls a continuous line of communication or is it rather a constant exchange of short audio messages? About SimpleX Chat (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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I hope you guys understand my question, as somebody who has used VOIP on very limited times.

On a regular phone call, there is a constant line of communication, meaning both sides could talk at the same time if they wanted. I thought VOIP would be like this, but in my experience VOIP is a short audio message you send, the other side hears it and sends you an answer, nothing wrong with that.

I want to talk to family, I don’t want to use whatsapp and I’m experimenting with SimpleX Chat. It allows me to send short audio files as audio messages, but it’s still not a continuous LOC. Would whatsapp be the same?

I want to convince family to use SimpleX, user experience would have to be as similar as possible to whatsapp

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[–] MeowWeHaveAProblem@toast.ooo 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Both sides can talk at the same time during VOIP calls. While Simplex can send audio or other files you can also tap the phone icon in your contact. This will make a regular phone call or video call with two way communication. For me, calls have worked the best out of other open source apps other than Signal. Only problem I have had was echo when using speaker phone. Regular calls work fine.

If you were asking about the network layer how things work. There are small packets of information going in both directions. Dropped packets will cause short lost audio. But normally all the small packets are put together into a continuous two way communication.

[–] merompetehla@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

thank you for the answer