audio call

Spoken phone conversation

An audio call is a voice-only telephone or internet call, as distinguished from a video call.

The term emerged as video calling became common and speakers needed to specify: Can we do an audio call instead? I'm not dressed for video.

Also called a voice call.

Related

dial tone · conversation · speaker · microphone · receiver · hello · hang up · connection · bad connection · talk · listen · buzzing · hold · on hold · mute · static · ringtone · earpiece

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Opposites
communication modality

audio callvideo call

Real-time visual telecommunication

video chat · video conference · FaceTime · visual communication · face-to-face meeting

synchronicity

audio calltext message

Brief electronic communication

voicemail · email · written correspondence · letter · recorded message

mediation

audio callphysical presence

Being somewhere in body

face-to-face meeting · in the flesh

Family

audio, call, audible, audibility, audibly, inaudible, audition, auditor, auditory

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