Telephony Application Programming Interface (programming, communications) (TAPI, or "Telephone Application Program Interface") A Windows 95 Application Program Interface enabling hardware independent access to telephone based communication. TAPI covers a rather wide area of services from initialising the equipment (e.g. a modem) and placing a call to voice mail or control of a remote computer.
[Telephone or Telephony?] Last updated: 1995-12-05