Communication

/ˈvɔɪp/

n. “Your phone, but over the internet instead of wires.”

VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is a technology that allows voice communications and multimedia sessions to be transmitted over IP networks, such as the internet, rather than traditional circuit-switched telephone lines. It converts analog audio signals into digital data packets, sends them over a network, and then reassembles them into sound at the receiving end, enabling phone calls, video calls, and conferencing entirely online.

/tȯk mōd/

n. “a shared real-time text space where conversation behaves like typing and thinking at the same time.”