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Speak Up! Designing a speech-enabled IVR system is inherently complex and requires in-depth preparation. Here are eleven strategies to ensure that you're hearing your customers loud and clear.   |
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May 2012
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Natural Language Understanding Grows Up The bar has been raised for technologies that not only hear, but understand too. |
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February 2015
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The Hidden Sources of Poor Customer Service Interactions should be designed with the customer in mind. |
CRM
July 1, 2006
Coreen Bailor |
Microsoft Talks Pretty One Day The software giant hopes to end the struggle with the development, management, and TCO of speech-enabled apps. |
CRM
May 1, 2006
Coreen Bailor |
Like a Circle in a Spiral Making your interactive voice response system as user friendly as possible will help increase customer loyalty and keep costs down. |
InternetNews
May 8, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Begins Testing Speech Server 2007 Microsoft today formally opened up a public beta test of the Microsoft Speech Server 2007, a significant upgrade to its voice recognition and telephony server with a host of new features and technologies. |
CRM
December 1, 2003
David Myron |
Speech Technology Begins to Realize Its Potential Vendor representatives discuss of the practicality of speech recognition in today's contact center. |
Bank Technology News
December 2001
Amy Newell |
Talking It Up Customers now can conduct their call-center banking by speaking to a computer in everyday language. Long a dream relegated to the realm of science-fiction, the technology is finally ready to go in the real world. But are financial institutions heeding the message? |
CRM
October 1, 2005
Coreen Bailor |
On the Scene--Talk Good: Best Practices in Speech Deployment Industry experts provide guidance for considering and deploying speech technologies. |
Bank Technology News
July 2005
Shane Kite |
Communications: Automated Talking Gets More Complex Interactive voice messaging-the next step beyond traditional interactive voice response-gives banks a shot at more proactive customer relationship management. But are there options? |
New Architect
March 2002
Jonathan Eisenzopf |
Updating Your System Is VoiceXML right for your customer service strategy? |
CRM
May 1, 2007
Coreen Bailor |
Chatting Up Customers Down Under A telecommunications company combines speech with CTI and increases customer satisfaction, agent efficiency, and self-service adoption as a result. |
CRM
May 1, 2007
Walter Rolandi |
Hybrid Hopes If call centers want to circumvent most speech recognition problems, the time has come for hybrid architectures. |
CRM
October 2012
Donna Fluss |
IVRs Get a Bad Rap There's no excuse for not investing in these systems. |
CRM
July 2015
Leonard Klie |
Conversational Computing Strives to Meet the 'Star Trek' Standard Speech technology, combined with artificial intelligence, will enable people to interact with machines in a natural way |
CRM
April 2007
Bailor et al. |
The 2007 Service Leaders, Part 1 Here is the Contact Center Market's Leading Vendors in Seven Areas: Computer Telephony Integration... Interactive Voice Response... Web-Support Services... Workforce Optimization... Quality Monitoring... Agent-Facing Universal Desktop... Outsourcing Services... |
CRM
January 2004
David Myron |
(Automated) Talk Is Cheap Speech technology is saving companies big bucks. |
CRM
November 1, 2006
Coreen Bailor |
Speech Recognition Leads to R&R Fluency Voice Technology helps a travel services company provide its customers with more communication choice. |
InternetNews
March 25, 2004
Michael Singer |
The Redmond Giant Speaks Out Microsoft says its Speech Server 2004 platform is worth its weight in SALT and that speech recognition has hit mainstream. |
CRM
March 2015
Leonard Klie |
The 2015 CRM Service Leaders: Interactive Voice Response While interactive voice response systems were once only used by large companies that received massive amounts of calls, small businesses are now adopting the technology in large numbers as well. |
CIO
July 1, 2003
John Edwards |
Smooth Talkers Speech integration technology gives customers and employees convenient access to back-end data. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2010
Stuart J. Johnston |
Google Giving Voice Search a Personal Touch Search giant updates its voice-recognition technology to record and identify people's speech patterns and tones to build individualized models for users. |
CRM
April 2005
Bailor et al. |
The 2005 CRM Service Leaders--Part I Awards winners for the most impressive providers of customer care architecture, technology, and services who have worked over the past year to improve their capabilities so that contact centers can go about their business more efficiently and effectively. |
CRM
January 2015
Leonard Klie |
In Customer Service, It's More Efficient to Be Effective Rushing customers off the phone might cut costs, but ignores the potential for greater value. |
CRM
April 2006
Bailor et al. |
The 2006 Service Leader Awards, Part 1 Computer Telephony Integration: Avaya... Cisco Systems... Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories... Interactive Voice Response: Avaya... Nortel Networks... Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories... etc. |
CRM
March 2010
Christopher Musico |
The 2010 CRM Service Awards: Service Leaders - Interactive Voice Response Genesys is doing some of the most leading-edge stuff in terms of that dream of marrying IVR with the computer-telephony integration workflow. |
CRM
April 1, 2007
Coreen Bailor |
Winnowing Customer Care Woes Craft applications with touch-tone and speech-enabled IVRs based on customer needs. |
CRM
April 2006 |
The Rising Star and Service Excellence Awards Here are the companies that have customer service pundits talking: Interactive Intelligence... UniPress Software... FrontRange Solutions... The New Nuance... |
CRM
November 4, 2011
Leonard Klie |
VoiceHub Launches Low-Cost Call Router with Speech Recognition VoiceHub brings a speech recognition-based phone service to entrepreneurs, mobile workers, and small to medium businesses. |
CRM
April 2008
Christopher Musico |
The 2008 CRM Service Awards: Interactive Voice Response IVR solutions are growing increasingly mature; Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories proves itself most mature of all. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2010
Gabriel Perna |
Google Makes Voice Personal Google speaks with you. |
CIO
October 15, 2001
Fred Hapgood |
Look Who's Talking After a decade of deafness, speech interfaces finally are ready to listen... |
CRM
March 2014
Donna Fluss |
Speech Analytics Is an Enterprise Change Agent Expanding beyond the contact center is a challenge to overcome. |
Technology Research News
April 6, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Dialogue System Juggles Topics Researchers have built a dialogue management system that promises to improve verbal communication with computers by giving the machine a sense of the type of phrase a person is likely to say next. |
Insurance & Technology
November 17, 2004
Maura K. Ammenheuser |
Loud and Clear To improve customer service, insurers are increasingly turning to speech-based technology, and away from call centers, to handle consumer questions. The familiar touch-tone systems may soon go the way of the rotary phone. |
CRM
October 18, 2004
Coreen Bailor |
Can You Here Me Now? VoiceXML, or Voice Extensible Markup Language, has made its way into the contact center and is bringing standards to the IVR (interactive voice response). |
CFO
January 1, 2005
Karen Bannan |
Ernestine, Meet Julie Natural language speech recognition is markedly improving voice-activated self-service. |
CRM
May 1, 2006
Coreen Bailor |
Crediting Speech IBM and Call Design help Australia's St. George Bank reap the benefits of a speech-user interface by delivering one voice to the customer while minimizing call transfers and improving satisfaction with its voice channel. |
CRM
March 2004 |
The 2004 Service Leaders--Part I The leading customer service vendors for 2004 |
CRM
August 2007 |
The Voices of Reason Now enterprises can use technology to help employees search voicemails or recorded calls for key words and phrases, and, in the end, to decode important customer concerns. |
InternetNews
September 13, 2004
Erin Joyce |
IBM Donates Voice Code to Apache IBM and other software players in the voice-enabled sector are making it easier for J2EE developers to add voice interaction to Web applications. Partners such as Avaya are looking to build speech apps that can run on anyone's platform. |
CRM
December 2010 |
Separating Fact From Fiction Addressing myths regarding upgrading non-vXML-based applications and improving IVR applications. |
InternetNews
August 8, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Adds Speech To Communications Server Microsoft will fold its Speech Server software into the upcoming Office Communications server, thus integrating speech with instant messaging and e-mail communication. |
PC Magazine
June 22, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
Talk to Your Phone Through the new version of Windows Mobile software, Microsoft gives cell phones more PC-like capabilities and speech recognition. |
Insurance & Technology
November 1, 2006
Phil Britt |
Hearing the Call To improve responsiveness, Humana Military Healthcare Services added AnswerCenter, a Web-based common knowledge base application from Spanlink Communications, a provider of customer interaction solutions. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
At Last, A Phone That Takes Dictation Speech-recognition technology for dictation of text messages is becoming available on wireless phones. |
CRM
April 2011
Leonard Klie |
IVR Personalization: Strike the Right Balance Too much familiarity can repel customers, so IVR designers must take pains to build the right systems. |
CRM
February 2011
Leonard Klie |
A Gray Area Today's seniors can't be left out of IVR design decisions. |
CRM
April 30, 2013 |
HP Pairs with Avaya for Cloud Contact Center Solutions New Customer Engagement as a Service brings social media marketing, mobile integration, and customer analytics to a single platform. |
CRM
December 2010
Donna Fluss |
Speaking of Solid Payback Optimizing your interactive voice response system may require only a small investment |
