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Are Automation and AI the Same Thing in the Contact Center?

CCNG

These systems can still offer significant benefits, such as reducing wait times and ensuring customers are directed to the appropriate department. Automation has been a part of the contact center for decades, even pre-internet times. Automation for a long time required programming. Let’s take modern chatbots for example.

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3 ways virtual agents can boost call center efficiency

Talkdesk

Self-service is a hot topic in the call center industry. From knowledge bases to virtual agents, the potential disruption that a solid set of self-service applications can bring to contact center efficiency and customer experience is unquestionable and justifies all the buzz.

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Is Your Inexperienced Approach to Self-Service Driving Customers Away?

Creative Virtual

Perhaps in the early days of limited in-person interactions and surges in calls to contact centres, customers were more understanding about long wait times or out-of-date self-help content. During the past year, more customers have turned to digital channels and automated self-service for support.

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Live Agents and Virtual Agents: The Spectrum of Care

Interactions

You know your task can be completed through self-service–it’s just a simple cancellation. After 30 minutes of waiting you finally get put through to an agent, who is able to quickly cancel your appointment. You want to speak to a live agent to explain your situation and bypass business rules.

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Why Every Contact Center Manager Should Consider Voice-Driven AI

SmartAction

Conversational AI technology over the phone goes beyond chatbots to leverage the power of voice and offer a more personal experience. Conversational AI helps them out of what seems to be an endless cycle of button pressing and voice prompts to connect them immediately with a virtual agent. All of which increase profitability.

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Would You Rather Call Customer Support or Clean a Toilet?

Creative Virtual

These stats, just two of many in the 2022 Achieving Customer Amazement Study , likely have you nodding in agreement thinking about your own painful customer service experiences. Long wait times, disengaged agents, multiple call transfers, repeating yourself over and over – calling customer support has a bad reputation for a reason.

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Embracing Conversational AI for Contact Center Success in 2023

SmartAction

Let’s address the common objections and show you how to overcome them with conversational AI and virtual agents. By deploying virtual agents, you can reduce the need for a large workforce to handle routine inquiries. Today’s virtual agents are far from the robotic voices of the past. No worries!