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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    7 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).

    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.