Typing on IRC is still pretty "in-your-head".
The idea is to replicate online, as much as possible, the experience of having a face-to-face conversation.
The idea is to replicate online, as much as possible, the experience of having a face-to-face conversation.
Audio also forces both users to focus just on the conversation and takes away the worries of how you look, lighting, etc.
With audio, you remove some of the friction of having a webcam, laptop, etc for video unlike for audio you could potentially integrate it to a cell service.