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Voice AI Glossary: Terms Buyers Meet in Vendor Calls

Plain definitions of the voice AI terms that vendors use: latency, barge-in, turn detection, STT and ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, SIP trunking, warm transfer, concurrency, BAA and more.

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Vendors use many technical terms. This glossary explains them in plain words. Terms are in alphabetical order. Prices in examples are from public pages on 2026-10-29 and can change.

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