Glossary
Decagon’s AI and CX glossary
The world of agentic AI and modern customer experience moves fast. This glossary breaks down the most important concepts in plain language, so your team can evaluate, deploy, and scale CX platforms with confidence.
Token limit
Tone of voice in AI
Topic modeling
Transfer learning
Turn-taking (conversational AI)
U
Utterance
V
Vector embedding
Voice activity detection (VAD)
Voice agent barge-in
Voice AI vs conversational AI
Voice biometrics
Voicebot
Voice cloning
Voice of the customer (VoC)
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
W
Wake word
Warm transfer vs. cold transfer
WhatsApp Business API
WISMO (where is my order)
Word Error Rate (WER)
Workforce management
Workforce optimization (WFO)
X
Y
Z
Zero data retention AI
Zero-shot learning
