What does the language the Agents use sound/look like?

Question

When Agent Smith, or another goon of the agents, uses his earpiece and then begins to tap into a "blue-pill" human, taking over his entity, what language are they hearing?

They're sentient programs, not fax machines. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the canon somewhere states that the messages they're receiving through their ears sounds just like a fax machine.

Or is it visual?

Basically, in The Matrix, how do agents communicate with each other? And on top of this, who are they getting the information from?

Answer 1

As the Agents are programmatic constructs of an artificial intelligence simulation, they would most likely communicate in machine code. As far as sound goes, it would not actually create any sound. Can you hear your computer's processes as the keyboard tells the screen to render letters? The look, however, would depend on the specific architecture and language behind the hardware that it was written on. If they were written on old Z-80 assemblers:

ld b,0
ld a,($1000)
add a,b
ld b,a
ld a,($1001)
add a,b
ld b,a
ld a,($1002)
add a,b
ld b,a
ld a,($1003)
add a,b
ld b,a
ld a,($1004)
add a,b
ld b,a

However, if you were to hook up one of the machines running the agents to a modem...

SKAREEEEEEE RWWWWERRRRR DLINGDLONG SKRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

other old dial-up noises here.

Answer 2

The matrix is a simulation that all the humans are experiencing as virtual reality.

The actions by the agents - like listening to earpieces and shooting people with guns are perceptual abstractions of what they are really doing. If you think about it, a watchdog program could just disconnect a defective human in the simulation. But this would probably cause problems when the other humans see this person just disappear from their virtual world - so, the agents continue the fantasy by appearing as we would expect in a real world.

The program also needs to deal with the externally connected "terrorists" like Morpheus and Neo and their crew in such a way that would continue the fantasy of the rest of the simulation.

Answer 3

It appears that they use their earpiece for communication. When Smith took his earpiece off while interrogating Morpheus, he didn't know that somebody is in the building before the other agents came to tell him.

Morpheus once said:

[The agents'] strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.

The idea here is to make sure nobody perceives something supernatural that will make them doubt the matrix. This means that when agents interact with the matrix, they follow the physical laws we are familiar with. Considering that the lack of the earpiece prevents them from communicating makes me think that this is the only way they communicate. This would mean that they are strict about keeping the illusion real which would imply that they communicate in a human language (e.g. english).