softphone

softphone definition - telecom
A software-based telephone comprising a desktop, laptop, or tablet computer equipped with a microphone, a speaker, and software that enables it to emulate a hardphone, i.e., conventional telephone set. See also computer and software.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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