Audio compression (data)

Okay, have you ever played with a toy where you can squish it down and make it smaller? That is kind of like how audio compression works. When you listen to music or a podcast, it is made up of a lot of sounds that make up the words and music you hear.

Now imagine you want to send that audio to someone else over the internet or a phone call, but the audio file is really big and takes up a lot of space. This is where audio compression comes in.

Audio compression is like squishing the audio down so it takes up less space but still sounds almost the same. It works by taking out some of the sounds in the audio that aren't as important or noticeable to our ears.

Think of it like taking a picture and making it smaller. You might not see all the little details anymore, but you can still tell what is in the picture. Audio compression is like that, taking out some of the little details that we might not notice, but still keeping the important sounds so we can listen to our music or podcasts.

So, audio compression is like squishing down audio files so they don't take up as much space or use as much data, but still sound almost the same.