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Avoid Seasonal Highs and Lows with These Customer Experience Tips

CSM Magazine

It’s also a 50% increase from 2009’s record low of $4.06 The following are a few approaches that have worked successfully for many of my clients: Review/revise your IVR. Bottom line, take a look at your IVR flow, and how it is driving calls into different queues to optimize the user experience. since last year.

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A Brief History of Speech Recognition and How It Benefits Businesses

Noble Systems

The personal computer propelled speech recognition in the 1990s, which is when BellSouth introduced its voice portal, VAL. Google Voice Search launched in 2009. Businesses in a variety of industries rely on ASR to direct callers to the right department or person through an IVR system. It included 230 billion words.

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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

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The Great Recession in 2008-2009 accelerated the offshoring trend as companies grappled with the economic downturn. One optimized Cognitive IVR can automate the work for a near infinite number of live operators for a given call type. Which meant that someone from Kansas could call a U.S