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Reduce call hold time and improve customer experience with self-service virtual agents using Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

AWS Machine Learning

The key to making this approach practical is to augment human agents with scalable, AI-powered virtual agents that can address callers’ needs for at least some of the incoming calls. Gartner’s Customer Service and Support Leader poll estimates that live channels such as phone and live chat cost an average of $8.01

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The Generic ‘Chat Now’: Virtual Agent or Live Chat?

Creative Virtual

This is something that organisations implementing a self-service virtual agent or chatbot should keep in mind, regardless of whether they are integrating it with live chat. Make it obvious that it is a digital, automated tool with wording such as ‘Please ask our Virtual Agent’.

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Purchasing Power’s AI-Powered Virtual Agent Wins Top Honor for Excellence in Self-Service

SmartAction

Frost & Sullivan awards Purchasing Power ® for their AI-Powered Virtual Agent created in partnership with SmartAction ® to enable conversational self-service for their customers. The post Purchasing Power’s AI-Powered Virtual Agent Wins Top Honor for Excellence in Self-Service appeared first on SmartAction.

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Multi-Lingual Digital Customer Service is Easier Than Ever

Creative Virtual

This has opened up new possibilities for delivering multilingual customer self-service. For example, this year I’ve been working on several conversational AI projects with businesses taking advantage of machine translation to provide customer service in multiple languages.

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SmartAction Sees Record Growth Against Backdrop of Achieving Profitability

SmartAction

Leading provider of AI-powered Virtual Agents for omnichannel self-service posts its largest growth in sales bookings for the year. As the global intelligent virtual agent market is expected to reach $11.3b SmartAction’s 2019 Momentum Highlights. About SmartAction. Related Links www.smartaction.ai

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3 Reasons Why You Should Start Every Conversation with AI

SmartAction

pay my loan, check my balance, or transfer funds," which became the new way to start a customer service conversation through traditional speech IVRs around 2016. The virtual agent can then assist the customer with the utmost accuracy. Add capabilities for the virtual agent to find a room near a pool at each resort.

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SmartAction Names Former Convergys CEO, David Dougherty, to Board of Directors

SmartAction

The former Convergys Chief Executive Officer becomes the latest addition to SmartAction’s Board of Directors to assist in the growth of its top-rated AI-powered virtual agent solution for contact centers. He ultimately served on the Board of Directors first as COO, then as CEO, for five years.