What is packet loss?
Packet loss is an audio processing term for data packets that fail to arrive during a call, causing gaps, glitches or dropped words in the audio stream.
What is an example of packet loss?
You’re on a call and someone’s voice suddenly clips out for half a second – that’s packet loss, usually from a shaky mobile signal.
How does packet loss work?
Packet loss usually comes from network congestion or an unstable connection; real-time systems often try to conceal it by interpolating or repeating the last audio received. Left unmasked, it can drop whole syllables or words, which is enough to flip a transcript’s meaning or make a voice agent misunderstand the caller entirely.
How does ai-coustics address packet loss?
Packet loss is one of the six Tyto Dimensions, flagging when a downstream failure is a network problem rather than a model problem.
