[hemmerling] Telephony APIs and Telephony API Services (TAPI)

• Google Voice.
• sipgate API - via remote procedure calls (RPC), with XML-RPC messages. Sample code for .NET and Perl is available.
• Telekom Developergarden.
  • Developer Garden Software Development Kits (SDKs).

1. Analog Telephones with TAPI support.
   • Tiptel AG.
     • tiptel 175 clip, tiptel 274, tiptel 275 ( Tiptel - TAPI drivers download ).
2. ISDN Telephones and ISDN cards with TAPI support.
   • Dialogic Deutschland GmbH
     • Diva ISDN USB, Diva Pro PC Card, Diva PCI, Diva Pro PCI, Diva ISDN+CT v2 - Dialogic® Diva® Client Software Suite for Windows is shipped with a TAPI driver.
   • Funkwerk
     • Funkwerk elmeg CS410, CS410-U.
     • Funkwerk elmeg T444.
     • Funkwerk elmeg T484.
   • Gigaset Communications GmbH ( formerly: Siemens Gigaset ).
     • Gigaset SX255 isdn, SX303 isdn, SX353 isdn - A TAPI driver is provided by the free “Gigaset talk&surf” software.
   • NEC PHILIPS UNIFIED SOLUTIONS "ErgoLine".
     • ErgoLine D330, ErgoLine D340 are shipped with a TAPI driver.
   • Swissvoice Eurit ( Eurit - formerly by ASCOM )
     • Eurit 4000.
     • Eurit Office Tool ( today: ESTOS GmbH "EuritelPro" ) is shipped with a free “Euritel TAPI driver”.
   • Telekom.
     • T-Comfort, T-Eumex , Europa, Teledat, T-Concept - free TAPI drivers ( Download TAPI drivers for T-Comfort, T-Eumex , Europa, Teledat, T-Concept ).
   • Tiptel AG.
     • tiptel 192, tiptel 192 plus, tiptel 193, tiptel 193 plus, tiptel 195, tiptel 292 ISDN/CTI, tiptel 293 ISDN/CTI/Mailbox ( Tiptel - TAPI drivers download ).
3. Softphones with TAPI support.
   • Nero SIPPS - discontinued free softphone for Windows, with TAPI support. Please visit my web page ”SIP Telephony” for further details.
   • T-Online Internet-Telefon - discontinued free softphone for WinXP, with TAPI support. Please visit my web page ”SIP Telephony” for further details.
   • Global IP Telecommunications Ltd..
     • "Ninja Pro", commercial softphone for Windows.
   • The commercial edition of the softphone “3CX VOIP Client” is shipped with TAPI support. Please visit my web page ”SIP Telephony” for further details.
   • The free softphone “Phoner” is shipped with TAPI support. Please visit my web page ”SIP Telephony” for further details.
4. VoIP hardware phones and DSL routers ( with/without ISDN or Analog ) with TAPI support.
   • Aastra DeTeWe.
     • Aastra 50i SIP phones - Aastra suggests to use SIPTAPI.
   • Fritz!Box with free AVM “TAPI Services for FRITZ!Box”. Please visit my web page ”SIP Telephony” for further details.
   • Auerswald GmbH & Co. KG.
     • Auerswald COMpact 2104-2 USB, 2204 USB, 2206, 3000, 4410, 5010, 5020, are shipped with a TAPI driver.
   • snom 870, snom 820, snom 370 snom 360, snom 320, snom 300, snom m3 - a commercial TAPI driver is avialable. Please visit my web page ”SIP Telephony” for further details.
5. System telephones with TAPI support.
   • Alcatel-Lucent.
     • Alcatel 4034, Alcatel 4035 advanced are shipped with a TAPI driver.( TAPI driver download ).
   • Auerswald GmbH & Co. KG.
     • Auerswald COMfortel 2500, 2500 AB are shipped with a TAPI driver.
   • Funkwerk Aphona Communications GmbH.
     • Aphona M37 is shipped with a TAPI driver.
   • Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG.
     • optiset E, optiPoint 410, optiPoint 500, optiPoint 600 - can operate with the free CallBridge TAPI driver software.
   • Telekom
     • Octophon, Octopus - free TAPI drivers ( Download TAPI drivers for Octophon, Octopus ).
     • Telekom Hilfe & Service - Downloads / Geräte & Zubehör / Telefonanlagen / Octopus Serie / Octopus E10/20/30/300/800/5000.
       • “Octopus E10/20/30/300/800/5000 - Entwicklerdokumentation zu Octopus E Tapi-Link (engl.). Die Dokumentation ist nur für Applikations-Programmierer erforderlich” = “TAPI-Link zur Anschaltung von TAPI-Applikationen unter Windows 95, 98 und NT 4.x. CallBridge TA, CorNet TS/WP TAPI Service Provider. Supplement to the Microsoft Windows Telephony Application Programmer's Guide Version 1.5”.

• SIP TAPI, SIPTAPI
  • ipcom "SIPTAPI", enum.at "SIP TAPI".
  • Sourceforge "siptapi", Sourceforge "siptapi"
  • SIP Foundry: Click-to-Dial for Outlook, CardScan, ACT! using SIP TAPI.
• Asterisk TAPI Service Provider (TSP)
  • Sourceforge "Activa for Asterisk, by activa"., Sourceforge "Activa for Asterisk, by activa".
  • Blog VoIP Buzz: "Asterisk with your TAPI application".
• The commercial TERASIP TSP. TAPI Service Provider for SIP - “A single-line version is free for personal use”.
• PhoneSuite “TAPI for Asterisk”, “TAPI for snom” - commercial TAPI driver.
• ESTOS GmbH.
  • ESTOS GmbH "EuritelPro", is shipped with a free “Euritel TAPI driver”.
  • ESTOS ECSTA for snom - TAPI driver for Snom phones.
  • ESTOS Tapiserver.
  • TAPI-Treiber. Auswahl der unterstützten Telekommunikations - Systeme - names the supported TAPI versions ( TAPI 1.4, TAPI 2.0, TAPI 3.0 ) of the TAPI drivers of many telephones.
  • ExceleTel TeleScope - “After installation, the Telescope trial version will run for 10 minutes, then shut down for 2 minutes. You may evaluate the trial version for 30 days.”
• The commercial ilink Kommunikationssysteme GmbH "ilink TAPI-Testsuite".

• The commercial Microsoft Outlook.
• The commercial CRMADDON Factory GmbH "ACT!".
• The commercial software TAPICall.
  • TAPI-Treiber Download Bereich - list of TAPI enabled hardware phones, communication servers and soft phones.
• Fischer Software - Berlin "Infodesk Phone (CTI)" for WinXP with .NET 3.5 - the freeware version works just with Fritz.Box.
• CardScan.
• The commercial KDTele Tools.
• The commercial GoldMine CRM.
• TAPIMaster by Tino Kasubke.
  • The free “TAPIMaster Line Watcher”.
  • The free “TAPIMaster”, limited to be used with up to 4 clients.
• The commercial Scendix Software, Inc. "TapiRex".
• Ralf Steinrücken, ITecSoft.
  • The free ( PhoneSuite CIT, xtelsio CTI ) Client light.
  • The commercial ( PhoneSuite CIT, xtelsio CTI ) Client Standard / Professional.
• The discontinued commercial “TalkWorks PRO - 3.0”.
  • EN.Wikipedia: "TalkWorks".
• CIDview by Katalina Technologies - discontinued free TAPI-compliant Caller ID monitor for Windows and Microsoft's Unimodem V driver ( - Apr 27, 1999 ).
  • Forum Thread "I Am Interested In A Copy Of The Discontinued 'cidview 1.2'. Discontinued Caller ID monitor with TAPI support".
  • Download CIDview12.exe.

• ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/TAPI/.
• EN.Wikipedia: "Microsoft Windows SDK".
  • Windows® Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK Full Download, for W2k.
  • Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
  • The directory ”.\Samples\NetDS\Tapi” contains the samples
    • ”.\Samples\NetDS\Tapi\Tapi2”.
    • ”.\Samples\NetDS\Tapi\Tapi3”.
    • ”.\Samples\NetDS\Tapi\Tapi3\VBScript\calldemo.Htm”.
• Windows Driver Kit (WDK).
  • Windows Server 2003 DDK, for W2k.
  • Windows Driver Kit (WDK) for WinXP ).
• The commercial framework AddTapi.NET 1.2 for .NET 2.0. AddTapi.NET supports TAPI 1.3 - 2.2. Fully functional demo version available, which displays a demo message.
• The commercial activeTAPI for .NET 2.0 - “free for private purpose up to two users”.
• The commercial ExceleTel TeleTools - “A collection of ActiveX and VCL controls you call from your telephony application”.
• The commercial nrComm Lib for Embarcadero Delphi and Embarcadero C++ Builder - “includes TnrCommTAPI component for work with TAPI devices” - trial version with nag screen is available.
• The commercial VaxVoIP SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) SDK ( file formats: ACTIVEX(.OCX) for .NET, CABINET (.CAB), LIBRARY (.LIB) for C++ ). A trial version with 30 days evaluation time is available.
• The commercial Research-Lab Inc. "Dialgo Wave Modem ActiveX v3.0".
• The commercial topTapi ( file formats: ActiveX and DLL ) - “topTapi ist ein Tool für Entwickler unter Visual Basic, ACCESS, EXCEL, Delphi, .NET und anderen Entwicklungsumgebungen, die ActiveX unterstützen”.
  • topTapi FAQ.

• Windows Help “tapi”
  • tcmsetup.exe
  • rasdial.exe
  • “Phone And Modem Options”
    • “Microsoft H323 TAPI Service Provider”.
    • “SIPPS TAPI Provider”
    • “TAPI Kernel-Mode Service Provider”
    • “Unimodem 5 Service Provider”.

• EN.Wikipedia: "Computer telephony integration" (CTI).
• EN.Wikipedia: "Telephony Application Programming Interface", DE.Wikipedia: "TAPI".
• EN.Wikipedia: "Telephony Service Provider".
• EN.Wikipedia: "Dialer", DE.Wikipedia: "Dialer" - “Der Begriff Dialer ... erstreckt sich im üblichen Sprachgebrauch nur auf die Premium-Rate-Dialer, also Dialer zur Anwahl von teuren 0900-9-Datenmehrwertdiensten” .
• EN.Wikipedia: Least-cost routing, DE.Wikipedia: Least Cost Router.
• MSDN: "Telephony Application Programming Interfaces (TAPI, TSPI, MSPI)".
  • Telephony Application Programming Interfaces.
• MSDN Windows Embedded Development Center: "TAPI Application Development".
  • Code Samples for Windows Mobile.
    • Synchronous TAPI.
    • Asynchronous TAPI.
    • tapiRequestMakeCall Function - important for simple TAPI applications which make use of the MS Phone Dialer, which is shipped with Windows ( W2k, WinXP,..).
• Microsoft Article 841712: "Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) functionality is not supported from managed code".
  • TAPI 3.x:
    • EN.Wikipedia: "Component Object Model".
• Microsoft Article 299456 "OL2000: Clicking "Line Properties" Generates Error Message About an Internal Error in the Automatic Phone Dialer”.
• MSDN Network Development Center: "About the Telephony Service Provider (TSP)".
  • “The H323 and IPConf TSPs are not available for use in Windows Vista.. The RTC Client API provides similar functionality”.
• The Code Project: "Creating your first TAPI application".
• VbsEdit, VbsEdit Sample scripts. Free sample VBS scripts:
  • Monitor TAPI Server Telephony Performance , WMI.
  • List Fax Server Device Providers.
• ScriptInternals by Tobias Weltner. Free sample VBS scripts:
  • WMI Namespace "root\cimv2"
    • Win32_PerfFormattedData_TapiSrv_Telephony.
    • Win32_PerfRawData_TapiSrv_Telephony.
• ExceleTel
  • TAPI Sample Programs for Telephony, with source code.
• Siemens Enterprise Communications - Experts Wiki - “about Siemens Enterprise Communications VoIP/SIP products, applications and solutions!”
  • HiPath OpenOffice EE open interfaces.
    • “TAPI Application Developer´s Guide HiPath TAPI 170 V2.0”.
  • HiPath_OpenOffice_ME_open_interfaces.
  • CallBridge Collection - TAPI driver.
  • HiPath TAPI 170 TSP - TAPI driver.
• Safe-Install: "TAPI".
• Dr.Dobbs Journal - John Petz: "A C++ Telephony Interface".
• "Controlling Modems with Win32::SerialPort".
• Microsoft Journal (MSJ), August 1996 - “MSJ Voicemail sample application” ( Alternative download: http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/msj/newfiles/MSJAug96.zip ).
• MSJ April 1998 - “Microsoft Journal (MSJ), SimpleTAPI sample application” ( Alternative download: http://www.decuslib.com/decus/vmslt98a/nt/msjapr98.zip ).
• “ExactTime” by Charles Petzold. ( Download: v16n20.zip ).
• sholl communications - “Refurbished Phones”.
• Software Download: Sip Device Line Tapi.
• Tom's miniBlog "Example: How to Establish Data Call Using TAPI 3 in C#".
• Programmersheaven "EnumTAPI is a sample console app that enumerates all the" .. “devices made available by TAPI and prints relavent information on each one. (C src)”

• Programmers United Develop Net ( PUDN ).
  • PUDN Search for "tapi".
  • PUDN Search for "tapi vbscript".
• Codeguru Forum.
  • ”TAPI Programming”.
    • Window.external methods of the Internet Explorer Document Object Model.
• VBWire VBForums.
  • ”dial using modem fax”.
• EggHeadCafe.
  • ”Using Tapi in Vbscript for dialing”.
  • ”vbscript Tapi not HTML” - “I'd rather suggest creating a COM object (with VB6 or C++) and consume this COM object from VBScript. This gives you the advantage of type safety and much better debugging”.
• BigResource .
  • ”How Can I Run A VBScript With Asynch Call From A Vbp Project ?”.
    • “CAll Monitoring Project Using TAPI3.0 W/Source Code & Sample Program”.
• Ureader.com - Microsoft software help and Community.
  • ”Tapi Dialer VB.NET / ASP.NET”.
    • With TAPI3 very basically (without events) it is:
      1. ITTAPI::Initialize()
      2. ITTAPI::get_Addresses()
      3. ITCollection::get_Item ()
      4. ITAddress::CreateCall()
      5. ITBasicCallControl::Connect()
      6. ITBasicCallControl::Disconnect()
      7. ITTAPI::Shutdown()
      8. .Release all objects
• snom Forum.
  • How to dial with a computer, by making use of a SNOM telephone ?.
• C/C++ Forum.
  • TAPI 2 : TSPI_lineGetCallInfo - callerID.
  • ITBasicCallControl - Problem.

• Andreas Marschall.
  • Andreas Marschall’s TAPI and TSPI FAQ.
  • Andreas Marschall’s Toto Tools.
• Bruce Pennypacker "My unofficial TAPI FAQ".
  • TAPI Books and References.
• Grant Schenck Software - “TAPI course notes”.
• Michael Dunn's TAPI Site.
• Mark Smith, JulMar Technology - free TAPI tools, TAPI SDKs and .NET / C++ sourcecode for TAPI libraries. Btw, the E-Mail address of Mark is a little bit “hidden” on the page, but it's there !
• Matthias Moetje
  • tapi.info - Microsoft Telephony API Wiki.
  • TERASENS GmbH.
• Michael Hübler.
  • c'tDialer, Hardware.
  • c'tDialer, Software - a TAPI Service Provider.
  • Versionen der Eurit Serie - “Bekannte Firmware-Versionen und ihre Bedeutung für den c'tDialer”.
  • Michael Hübler: "Wahllokal. c't-Dialer: Wählautomat für das ISDN-Telefon Ascom Eurit".
• Jörg Friebel.
  • Delphi Club "TAPI Projekt" (1999 - 2006 ).
    • TAPI Treiber - Nach Hersteller. TAPI Treiber was sie leisten... - “Diese Seite möchte alle bekannten Treiberprobleme, Treibereinschränkungen im Zusammenhang mit TAPI auflisten. ”
    • TAPI Praxis - “Jede TAPI Anwendung durchläuft mehr oder weniger die folgenden Punkte...”.
    • Embarcadero Developer Network, CodeCentral. Submissions by Joerg Friebel "TAPI Components for Delphi".

• Book Chris Sells: "Windows Telephony Programming: A Developer's Guide to Tapi".
  • Chris Sells, Program Manager in the Distributed Systems Group at Microsoft.
    • =>writing. The Book.
  • Source Code for "Windows Telephony Programming - A Developer's Guide to TAPI", by Chris Sells, officially maintained by Robert Bamberg.
  • The book covers TAPI 2.0 in detail, but there is just an advance preview of TAPI 3.0 .
• Book Charles A. Mirho, Andre Terrisse: "Communications Programming for Windows 95" - “A book/disk package explaining two important communications components in Windows: the Telephony API (TAPI) and the Messaging API (MAPI)”.
• Book Michael C. Amundsen: "Mapi, Sapi, and Tapi: Developer's Guide".
  • Michael C. Amundsen, MAPI, SAPI, TAPI Developer's Guide ( Download of source code ).
  • "Mapi, Sapi, and Tapi: Developer's Guide", HTML Online Version.
• Book Tony Davis, John Eaton, R. Murray Goertz: "Windows 95 Multimedia & Odbc Api Bible: Multimedia and Networking Bible" - “This book contains a complete section on TAPI programming, including chapters on TAPI phone & line devices, and assisted telephony”.
• Book Richard J. Simon: "Windows 95 / Windows NT AP Bible III. Multimedia, ODBC und Telefonie".
  • Part II Telefonie, Chapter 9 - 12.
• Book David Hamilton, Mickey Williams: "Windows NT 4. Programmierung für Insider".
  • Chapter 28 “TAPI”.

• DE.Wikipedia: "Common ISDN Application Programming Interface" (CAPI).
• CAPI Association.
• The free opensource CapiSuite - “ISDN telecommunication suite, ...which can be controlled from Python scripts”.
  • Old Homepage of CapiSuite by Gernot Hillier.
  • CapiSuite by FrankeData, Siegfried Franke e.K..

• Thesis paper Greg A. Torluemke: "Versit Tmap - Bridging Two Call-Models in Computer Telephony Integration".

• Standard ECMA-269 Services for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase II - CSTA.

• EN.Wikipedia: "Java Telephony API".
• SUN Developer Network: "Java ME. Java Telephony API (JTAPI)".
• JTAPI implementations.
  • Generic JTAPI, JAIN Jcc and JAIN Jcat ( Sourceforge "gjtapi", Sourceforge "gjtapi" ).
  • Sourceforge "xtapi", Sourceforge "xtapi".
    • Dialogic for Java, Dialogic for Java.
• devRealm.org - The developer's realm for Java and telecom applications.
  • JTapi hands-on, part I.
  • JTapi hands-on, part II.

*ilink Kommunikationssysteme GmbH "STLI" - “STLI was developed to offer basic CTI functionality in an uncomplicated way. With STLI it is possible to furnish any TCP/IP compliant application with telephony functions. For this, script languages like Perl or Python can be used”.

• 3CX APIs (Application Programming Interface).
  • HTTP API - “The Web API requires a licensed 3CX Phone System. It will not work on the free edition”.
• IFD - Ing.-Büro für Datentechnik: "PMAN -- PhoneManager (UNIX) für SCO OpenServer 5.0 und LINUX" - free telephone application for Linux.
• EN.Wikipedia: "Telephony Server Application Programming Interface".

• EN.Wikipedia "T9 (predictive text)", DE.Wikipedia "Text on 9 keys".
• EN.Wikipedia "Swype", EN.Wikipedia "Swype".

• Retrostar Voip Telefonhörer für die Soundkarte.
• Sipgate HS100b USB-Hörer.
• Steffen Siebert: "Ascom Eurit Headset - selbstgebaut".
• Holger Lembke: "ascom Eurit 40".
• Headsets for Elmeg CS410, with U10PS connecting cord ( “Anschlussschnur” ):
  • Plantronics, e.g. *Plantronics “Firefly F142 N”.
  • Jabra / GN Netcom.

• Newsgroup:
  • microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tapi.
  • microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tapi.
  • microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tapi.
  • Atom feed 100 New topics "microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tapi".
  • Atom feed 100 New messages "microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tapi"
• Ancient Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win95.commtelephony, microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tapi.beta, microsoft.public.platformsdk.telephony.tapi_2, microsoft.public.platformsdk.telephony.tapi_3, microsoft.public.platformsdk.telephony.tsp, microsoft.public.platformsdk.telephony.wte.
• Microsoft Discussion Groups
  • Discussions in TAPI Programming.
  • Discussions in WMI Programming.
• TERASENS GmbH Support Forums.
• GTN - A Generation of New Technology: "Win32 Programmer > TAPI".

• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Data Communications: Telephony: Voice Response Systems".
• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows: Windows 2000: Programming".