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comfort noise

comfort noise noun: synthetic background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the artificial silence in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection or from the audio clarity of modern digital lines.

Noun

comfort noise (uncountable)

  1. Synthetic background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the artificial silence in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection or from the audio clarity of modern digital lines.
    Synonyms:
    comfort tone

Synonyms of comfort noise

Questions about comfort noise

What does comfort noise mean?
Comfort noise means synthetic background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the artificial silence in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection or from the audio clarity of modern digital lines.
What part of speech is comfort noise?
Comfort noise is a noun.

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