Correction for the amount of All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded)
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How much is 980 exabytes?
It's about one-forty-fifth as much as All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded)
The amount of All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded) is about 43,000 exabytes.
(2003 figures) (assumes 16 Khz, 16-bit mono recording)
Criticizing a 2002 estimate of 5 exabytes, linguist and University of Pennsylvania professor Mark Liberman asserted that it would actually require 43,000 exabytes to house a recording of all speech in human history, even at a relatively low level of quality. For the purposes of his calculations, Liberman estimated the total duration of such a project to include 416,390,367 years of continuous audio.