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You have the same option on Zoom. But then, just as in any other videoconferencing app, your audio is now VoIP - an acronym which stands for "heavily compressed, choppy and muffled"

Dialing in from your phone increases the audio quality for everyone by a factor of approximately ∞

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Are phone networks better where you're from? The audio compression on the phone network renders the sound quality/clarity inferior to a built in laptop mic in my experience.

I'm in NY currently but have dialed in from several different states in the US and the quality from the phone is always significantly better than VoIP

I just have had a totally different experience then, I have to say. I associate people dialing in from their phones with high levels of background noise, both hissing static and actual background noise, and clipping/lost words. This includes coworkers in Europe and california.

After all, the listener is receiving over VoIP, so you've got phone network issues layered on voip issues.

In Brazil the VoIP calls are tremendously cleaner than directly phone calls, no matter which service is compared (Discord, Meet, Zoom etc)

Also in Manhattan.

Unless there’s an enterprise bandwidth constraint.

Just want to add that I've had this exact experience with people using phone audio with the added variant of them losing cellular signal every few minutes.

Weird, here (france) I made all my family's calls go through VoIP and voice clarity increased a thousandfold, it feels like going from a 1930 radio station to a CD

What’s the preferred service in France for that? Do you mean you set it up yourself with a particular SIP/IAX vendor, or just switched to free.fr or one of those providers?

we all have a VoWifi phone provider and stack

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