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by llamataboot 3530 days ago
and text messages, and skype calls, and...
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Especially now, that speech recognition is close to human performance.
I thought Skype calls used to be P2P
The Skype developers tried to let us know many many years ago: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fishywang/318591561
Used to be, yes.
Only sometimes, when it couldn't make a great connection between the two callers.

Now, from my understanding, Microsoft has re-worked Skype to always connect via their Skype servers (as the middle man).