Talking is not the problem for me. Its the darn ringtones. They just take away from the experience of what I am trying to accomplish in the water. I dislike the mental interprution in my time spent in what for me equals in many ways being at church. I would feel the same loss if I was crossing a Milo patch to a dog on point, listening to sermon, or watching a movie. And I had to hear an old timey phone ring, the nokia song, baby got back , Ac/Dc, Lady Gaga ect..