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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The speakers on your TV aren’t expensive and dynamic enough to perfectly replicate the complexities of a human voice – the sound wave is “flattened” and compressed with a lot of the peaks and valleys and low bass removed or simplified.

If you had really good recording equipment and really good speakers you could absolutely fool the ear, but the little one-inch speakers and shitty mixing software on a tv can’t do it.

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