voice calls
Telephone audio connections
Voice calls are phone conversations conducted by speaking and listening in real time, as opposed to text messages, emails, or video calls.
The term emerged as mobile phones gained multiple communication methods, requiring distinction between traditional talking and newer alternatives: I prefer voice calls for anything complicated, Can we do a voice call instead of texting?
- phoneHandheld communication device
- dialGraduated circular indicator
- dial toneSound indicating phone readiness
- ringClosed curve shape
- conversationExchange of spoken ideas
speaking · landline · cellular · talk · answer · hangup · receiver · mouthpiece · hello · operator · connection · static · hold · dialtone · chatting · on hold · conference · speakerphone
- digital communicationemail, internet, chat, texting, messaging
- feature phonesfeature phone, flip phone, basic phone, clamshell phone, dumbphone
- telecomwireless, cellular, telecommunications, carriers, telephone
- messagingmessage, text, chat, send, reply
- mobile servicesdata plan, mobile plan, unlimited plan, prepaid plan, text messaging
- Internet TelephonyVoIP, SIP, softphone, softphones, codec
voice callstext messages
Short mobile communications
texting · SMS · written correspondence · instant messaging · chat
voice, voices, voiced, voicing, voiceless, vocal, vocalize, vocalization, vocalist