> reading

We learn to read aloud, and there's usually a long transitional period of subvocalization. And even people who can read silently, if they want to very carefully understand something, often subvocalize it - even moving the lips silently. My conjecture is this process never goes away entirely.

> talking on the phone

Same mechanism. We hear the sounds and imagine ourselves making the muscle motions to produce such sounds.

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