Comment by zahlman

> "start_mode: Specify mode of detection of silence end at start": start_mode end at start?

In "start_mode", "start" means "initial", and "mode" means "method". But specifically, it's a method of figuring out where the silence ends.

> In the end, naming things is famously one of the two hard problems in computer science

It's also one of the hard problems in English.