TAPI: Microsoft Windows Telephony API
- Description:
TAPI allows applications to support telephone communication.
TAPI facilitates include:
- Connecting directly to a telephone network.
- Automatic phone dialing.
- Transmission of data (files, faxes, electronic mail).
- Access to data (news, information services).
- Conference calling.
- Voice mail.
- Caller identification.
- Control of a remote computer.
- Collaborative computing over telephone lines.
Windows 95 comes with a telephony application, DIALER.EXE, that can dial voice calls, act as a proxy for applications making simple telephony
requests, and maintain a call log.
- More information:
The Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains documentation, tools, and sample code for TAPI including the
Microsoft Telephony Programmer's Reference and the
Microsoft Telephony Service Provider Interface (TSPI) for Telephony.
WWW: Tapping in TAPI,
TAPI White Paper
- See also:
SAPI: Microsoft Speech API
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