(1) See
Alexa Voice Service.
(2) (
Address
Verification
Service) See
address verification.
(3) (
Audio
Video Coding
Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside of China. See
MPEG LA and
EVD.