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The Definitive Guide: IVA vs IVR and What’s Right for Your Contact Center

SmartAction

Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Understanding the key differences between IVR and IVA is crucial for businesses looking to optimize their customer service. A way to see the differences between IVR and IVA is to learn the pros and cons of each.

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IVR Surveys to Boost Customer Engagement

Calltools

Interactive voice surveys (IVR surveys) are one easy and effective way for your call center to gather useful insight about the customer experience. In most cases, contact centers will use IVR surveys at the end of the call, allowing customers to voice their opinions directly after working with a call center agent.

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Why Every Contact Center Manager Should Consider Voice-Driven AI

SmartAction

We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience. The AI-powered voice assistants of today offer a seamless experience, reaching a virtual assistant, in seconds, that can answer customer intentions with just a few words.

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Revolutionizing Customer Engagement: The Power of UCaaS Contact Center Software

Hodusoft

Revolutionizing Customer Engagement: The Power of UCaaS Contact Center Software The term ‘UCaaS’ has been in the modern telephony lexicon for quite some time now. Between the 1960s and 1990s, the invention of IP PBX , Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system, and voicemail system changed the way businesses used to communicate.

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The Future of Debt Collection Agencies: Contact Center Technology and Customer-Centric Strategies

NobelBiz

Technologies like Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems automate routine collection tasks, reducing the need for human intervention and thereby lowering operational costs. This is why automation is especially transformative in contact centers.

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New from Spearline! IVR systems testing

Spearline

With IVR systems in place, it can be hard to know if your customers are experiencing these problems. However, with the use of Spearline’s IVR Tester, individuals may map a full IVR system automatically. This blog outlines Spearline’s IVR testing solutions. A solution built for the IVR Testing applications.

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4 Effective Contact Center Development Ideas

Fonolo

Entrepreneur and CRM expert Bobby Darnell describes business development as a “contact sport.” When it comes to contact center development, what Darnell means is that you must engage. You can’t passively improve a call center. . Call center development is an essential subset of any overall business development plan.