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Terminology – Nortel Networks NN44470-100 User Manual

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Nortel Media Application Server 6.0 for AS 5300

Fundamentals

NN44470-100 01.01 Standard

Release 6.0 03 June 2008

Copyright © 2008, Nortel Networks

Terminology

A

digest access authentication

A method which web page can use to establish user identity (using the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol) without having to send a password in plaintext
over the network.

audio codec

A computer program that compresses and decompresses digital audio data
according to a given audio file format or streaming audio format.

ASR

See

automatic speech recognition

.

automatic speech recognition

The process of converting a speech signal to a sequence of words, by means
of an algorithm implemented as a computer program.

C

Call Control Extensible Markup Language

An Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard designed to provide
telephony support to VoiceXML. Informs the voice browser how to handle the
telephony control of the voice channel. See also

Voice Extensible Markup

Language

.

CCXML

See

Call Control Extensible Markup Language

.

D

Differentiated Services

A computer networking architecture that specifies a simple, scalable, and
coarse-grained mechanism for classifying, managing network traffic, and
providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees on IP networks.