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Telephony service provider

A telephony service provider, as defined in Microsoft's TAPI specification, is a software interface to a physical telephony device that can be accessed programmatically to perform actions such as dialing a phone number or logging a call. TSPs can be thought of as a TAPI specific driver for a telephony device.

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A telephony service provider, as defined in Microsoft's TAPI specification, is a software interface to a physical telephony device (such as a modem) that can be accessed programmatically to perform actions such as dialing a phone number or logging a call. TSPs can be thought of as a TAPI specific driver for a telephony device.

Example

Example Windows 10 supplies:

  • hidphone.tsp
  • remotesp.tsp
  • unimdm.tsp (universal modem)
  • kmddsp.tsp (kernel mode device driver)
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