If a recording of someones very rare voice is representable by mp4 or whatever, could monkeys typing out code randomly exactly reproduce their exact timbre+tone+overall sound?

I don’t get how we can get rocks to think + exactly transcribe reality in the ways they do!

Edit: I don’t get how audio can be fossilized/reified into plaintext

  • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Basically sound is a change in air pressure, and we record that pressure value thousands of times a second. That’s basically a bunch of numbers, and how rocks/electricity represents that is ones and zeroes (binary).

    Usually that data then gets compressed by using lots of smart maths. When you play that sound file, all that work is done backwards and your speakers produce the necessary pressure changes to make the sound.

    Monkeys could randomly produce a perfect human sentence if they typed random stuff into a text file and it got converted appropriately. It’s just insanely unlikely.