Voice 2.0

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What Does Voice 2.0 Mean?

Voice 2.0 is a slang term referring to IP phones and Web technologiess that execute Voice over IP (VoIP) applications. Voice 2.0 applications function like traditional phones or softphones and may include simulated graphics with interactive display panels.

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Techopedia Explains Voice 2.0

Voice 2.0 endpoints share a communication protocol and at least one audio codec, such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard.

Skype and Google Talk are Voice 2.0 applications with proprietary protocols and Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). Voice 2.0 applications may offer the open-source Inter-Asterisk Exchange protocol (IAX).

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.