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

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When it comes to customer service, businesses have a variety of tools at their disposal to make the process as smooth and efficient as possible. Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Can be a frustrating customer experience. Limited capabilities.

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Conversational AI: Trends to Watch in 2023

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Any business that wants to stay competitive, reduce operational costs, and take its customer service to the next level should take note. Perhaps most prominently, it helps companies provide a better customer service experience by providing greater – and faster – understanding of why a customer is reaching out and at what frequency.

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Conversational AI 101: NLU and IVR for Beginners

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Conversational AI is making the contact center and customer service industries better than ever. The ability of conversational AI technology to detect and understand speech are two of the biggest challenges faced by the Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Speech recognition is identifying the words that a customer says.

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

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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. I don’t want to wait on hold to talk to a person, and neither do customers.

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Adding a Chatbot: Trust a Pro or Build it Yourself?

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TechStyle Fashion Group group used virtual agents in voice and chat rather than allocating internal staff and resources to creating and maintaining their own conversational chatbot. Check out these success stories from some familiar brands that trust us to aid them in providing top notch customer care!

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SmartAction to Showcase Top-Rated AI-powered Virtual Agent Solution at Enterprise Connect 2019

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SmartAction’s cloud-based virtual agents automate conversations that live agents traditionally handled over voice, chat, and text. Contact center leaders should visit Booth #1102 to discover SmartAction’s LIFE LESS HARD obsession that puts the effortless Customer Experience (CX) above all else.

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From Q-and-A to Two-Way: Conversational AI is the Future of Voice Assistants

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Nowhere is this new AI-fueled reality more evident than in the customer service experience. When modern consumers initiate a customer service inquiry, they expect more than just “simple” voice directives – they want “complex voice” engagement that’s customized to their unique, multi-layered needs.