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Is 717 kilobytes as much as All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded)?

It's about 0.00000000000000002 times as much as All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded)
The amount of All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded) is about 48,000,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000000 kilobytes.
(2003 figures) (assumes 16 Khz, 16-bit mono recording)
Criticizing a 2002 estimate of 5,600,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 kilobytes, linguist and University of Pennsylvania professor Mark Liberman asserted that it would actually require 48,000,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000000 kilobytes 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.
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