I solve this problem by occasionally yelling at bafflingly stupid current events, as recounted by various youtubers/podcasts.

Gotta keep up that ability to insult on the fly.

Stretch those creativity brain pathways, in addition to your vocal cords.

Either that or cursing myself out for writing bafflingly bad code, from time to time.

… Less insanely, I also sing, and… have neighbors I talk to, go outside from time to time, chat up randos.

I have an internal monologue nearly all the time.

Sometimes I just outwardly verbalize it.

I have gone days without talking to other people but I don’t think I’ve ever gone a waking hour without talking.

when I was a bachelor. what bachelor hasn’t.

Also, you apparently have a sore throat. Who knew?

I cannot relate. I live with my GF but even if she leaves for the night I’ll start talking to my self somehow.

When I moved to my current house, my wife and kid were at our previous house for a while. I deliberately chose this house for its isolation, so for a while the only people I really spoke to were local cashiers every few days. (Side note: my kid was three at the time and had left a toy triceratops on the back of one of the commodes the day we signed for the house. I never thought a toilet would make me miss someone so much.)

Anyway, I work remotely and had a daily virtual meeting. Most days, that meeting was the first and last time I spoke. I also had some kind of long lived sinus infection going on, so not only did I speak pretty rarely, until I opened my mouth I wasn’t even sure if I’d have a voice that day.

I find myself talking to my terminal out loud

You lucky BS bastards… And I have to answer the same question to my kid every 5 seconds.

This is why cats exist

If I didn’t talk to myself out loud or use voice-to-text on my phone to leave internet comments, I’d be on day 5 of vocal silence right now.

Aside from work, most of the talking I do at home is joking around with my cat. He has no idea what the fuck is going on but I crack myself up and he meows his little heart out like he’s watching John Mulaney

not alone but forgetting how to talk. quit answering phone

Yes. Or the only words I’ve said aloud were Insane Clown Posse lyrics.

Got too many vocal cats I talk back to. Don’t think I can go an hour unless I’m sleeping.

Do you not cat?