(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?] (1995-12-05)