Specifications

Glossary 83
Byte
A group of eight binary digits (bits).
Call progress detection
The monitoring of a call to determine if the call was answered, the line
was busy, or no one was home (the call timed out).
Computer system
A combination of hardware, software, and external devices that performs
specific operations or tasks.
Console terminal
The terminal that you use when installing software and running
diagnostic programs.
Data
A representation of facts, concepts, or instructions suitable for
communication, interpretation, or processing by humans or by machines.
Data transmission
The movement of data, in the form of electrical signals, along a
communication line.
Debug
To detect, locate, and correct errors (bugs) in system hardware or
software.
DECvoice message
Text and stored-voice data in the special internal format that DECvoice
uses. Once voice and text data is in the form of a DECvoice message,
DECvoice can perform many different types of operations on the message.
DECvoice microcode
All the soft-loadable voice functionality available on the DECvoice module.
Included in the microcode is the system, audio, text-to-speech, stored
voice, and word recognition subsystems. The microcode is down-loaded
from the host.
DECvoice RTL
The DECvoice Run-Time Library is a group of routines that lets
applications program the DECvoice features. The routines cover module
initialization, data manipulation, voice storage, playback, recognition, and
telephone line control.