Analog audio
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The term Analog audio is typically used in contrast to digital audio. Strictly speaking; audio is used to describe things having to do with sound.
Sound is short-term variations in air pressure above an below average (barametric) air pressure. These pressure variations are translated by a transducer such as a microphone into voltage variations. The voltage variations change proportionally to the air pressure variations, so one can say the voltage variations are analogous to the sound- or that the voltage waveform is an "analog' of the audio waveform.