Eli5 Why is it so easy for us to tell the difference between a real voice and a recording of a voice?

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For example, how do our ears easily discern that someone talking in a room is actually there vs the dialogue coming from a television is not physically there?

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“Compression” is the word. Information gets compressed compared to RL when you work in an electronic environment, “it lacks certain details”.

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