comfort noise

English

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.
    Synonym: comfort tone
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