How does voice over wire or over internet work? How can we hear and understand another person in real time over such a distance via a digital transmission?

Question

Honest question I cannot wrap my mind around. How the hell does this work?

In: Physics

Answer 1

From end to end: speaking into microphone, modulation into digital, electronic signals (1s and 0s), transmitter sending 1s and 0s, picked up by receiver, receiver “translates” 1s and 0s back into identifiable audio, audio played by speaker.