Glossary

All these terms are defined in the context of over-the-phone speech-recognition applications.

Audio file

Digital sound file that the computer plays to a caller.

Audio icon

A short, sometimes musical, sound.

Back end

A database that provides information to a speech application.

Branding

The process of embodying aspects of a company's corporate identity.

Call flow

The structure of how the system branches based on the callers' responses.

Call scripts

A list of prompts to be recorded by a voice talent.

Concatenative TTS

A form of text-to-speech that splices pieces of prerecorded human speech.

Confirmation prompt

A type of prompt used to verify that the system correctly understood the caller.

Down sampling

The process of converting high-fidelity ...

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