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I'd allow it.
If I were to define Combat Banter, it would be a free action with the Auditory and Linguistic traits. Similar to define a non-combat exploration activity to speak.
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You don't need to make a definition. You can use the one from Player Core 1 page 419 (which is pretty much the same as the one in CRB was)
SPEAKING
As long as you can act, you can also speak. You don’t need to spend any type of action to speak, but because a round represents 6 seconds of time, you can usually speak at most a single sentence or so per round. Special uses of speech, such as attempting a Deception skill check to Lie, require spending actions and follow their own rules. All speech has the auditory trait. If you communicate in some way other than speech, other rules might apply. For instance, using sign language is visual instead of auditory.
It's the same one that is the reason being deafened gives you a flat check to cast non-Subtle spells (or spells with verbal components, premaster).
If you wanted to argue about exact words, you'd need to argue about "effect" not about "auditory".
Cool. That makes things even better.
As a side note: I just searched for that - again... And still can't find it in AoN no matter what keywords I use. Even when specifying the search to just rules so that I don't get a pile of spells like "Speak with Plants".
As great of a resource as AoN is, it's no substitute for reading through the books, if the goal is to catch all the important sidebars. Some of them are very hard to find in there. Sometimes even the pages giving you a full chapter of rules, instead of some heading or subheading, will be missing sidebars from that chapter.
