GLOSSARY

The words, defined plainly.

Air-gapped

A computer or network with no connection, direct or indirect, to the internet or any outside network.

IN OVVOS WASELDesigned for it: installs from offline media and needs no internet at any point.

Auto-detect

Identifying which language is being spoken without being told in advance.

IN OVVOS WASELDetects per sentence; can be restricted to a named set of expected languages.

Client isolation

An access-point setting that stops devices on the same WiFi from reaching each other. Common on guest networks.

IN OVVOS WASELMust be off between phones and the room PC.

Consecutive interpretation

The speaker pauses and the interpreter renders what was said, in turn.

Data sovereignty

The principle that data stays subject to the laws, and inside the borders, of the place it was created.

IN OVVOS WASELOn-premise, the meeting never leaves the building — let alone the jurisdiction.

Glossary (term base)

A fixed list of names and terms an interpreter must render consistently.

IN OVVOS WASELSettings → Glossary fixes names, ranks, units and designations per language.

Latency

The delay between someone speaking and the listener hearing the interpretation.

IN OVVOS WASELTypically two to four seconds behind the speaker.

Loopback capture

Recording the sound a computer is playing, at the operating system’s audio layer, without connecting to the app that produces it.

IN OVVOS WASELHow it works alongside Teams, Zoom and Webex without joining them.

Machine translation

Software that renders text from one language into another.

IN OVVOS WASELRuns on the room PC, into up to four languages at once.

On-premise

Software that runs on hardware inside your own facility, rather than on a provider’s servers.

IN OVVOS WASELThe default profile. Recognition, translation and voices all run on one room PC.

Right-to-left (RTL)

Scripts read from right to left, such as Arabic, Urdu and Persian.

IN OVVOS WASELCaptions in these languages render right to left.

Simultaneous interpretation

Rendering speech into another language while the speaker continues, rather than after they pause.

Source language

The language being spoken in the meeting.

IN OVVOS WASELHears 15.

Span port

A switch port that mirrors network traffic so it can be captured and inspected.

IN OVVOS WASELThe simplest way for your team to verify nothing leaves the room.

Speech recognition (ASR)

Turning spoken words into text.

IN OVVOS WASELOn-device, with language detection.

Speech synthesis (TTS)

Turning text into natural-sounding speech.

IN OVVOS WASELA natural neural voice for each of the 10 spoken languages.

Target language

The language a listener chooses to hear.

IN OVVOS WASELSpeaks 10; any four at once.

VLAN

A logically separate network segment on shared hardware.

IN OVVOS WASELAn isolated VLAN with no route beyond the room is recommended.