The process of digitalization for text and sounds is one that uses standardized numerical values or codes. Each letter symbol is given a unique number that the computers store, manipulate, and transmit. The benefits of this are that there is nearly no loss when transmitted, once encoded it can be reproduced perfectly an infinite number of times. The main trade-off involves compatibility and design choices involving character sets and the formatting of the standardized code. Digitalizing sound is a whole other process, however, as audio is inherently continuous and harder to convert. However, to digitize sound, you use microphones to convert vibrations in the air into electrical signals, which are sampled at regular intervals and converted into values. depending on the value depends on how much you want to store and how much storage and processing power you have. There is a large trade-off between Fidelity and efficiency when storing and digitalizing sound. When digitalizing text, there is little trade-off compared to digitalizing sound, where you have a trade-off of accuracy, usability, and resources.