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

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Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Each option has a role in customer service depending on what parts of the customer experience businesses want to automate and which parts they want live agents to handle. Available 24/7. Available 24/7.

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Conversational AI 101: NLU and IVR for Beginners

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Companies such as Google and Amazon are continually bringing new iterations of conversational AI technology into the mainstream and integrating different applications of machine learning into our everyday lives. Language modeling technology predicts the sequence of words that were most likely spoken. This is where the NLU comes in!

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

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Frost & Sullivan awards Purchasing Power ® for their AI-Powered Virtual Agent created in partnership with SmartAction ® to enable conversational self-service for their customers. SmartAction uses proprietary conversational AI to automate conversations that used to be handled by call center agents over phone, chat, and text.

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Conversational AI: Trends to Watch in 2023

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NLUs are already adding value, but advances in the technology will greatly enhance its delivery of a more human-like conversational experience. Many consumers are already familiar with products that provide text-to-speech and human voice. Conversational AI is the key to augmenting existing technology with a company’s IP.

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

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By examining the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI), the Times correspondents show how virtual voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa squandered their early advantage and left room for the rise of chatbots that use Conversational AI technology. Chatbots are, indeed, a different kind of virtual assistant.