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Why Every Contact Center Manager Should Consider Voice-Driven AI

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize the call center experience for the 59% of your customers who prefer telephone communication. 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.

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How Virtual Agents Help the Live Agent Workforce

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Since the dawn of conversational AI integrating into contact centers, one thing has been heard repeatedly … The robots are here to take our jobs! Yet when examining the facts versus fiction that sentient bots are here to end the live agent workforce, the opposite is true. Think of virtual agents as task relievers.

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What CTOs Should Know Before Implementing Conversational AI in the Contact Center

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When used in business, conversational artificial intelligence (AI) supports overall call center operations by providing self-service options, 24/7 availability, and real-time data and analytics – while lowering costs and increasing profits. Voice starts with the customer reaching your contact center platform.

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Helping AI Help Agents: A Better Way to Use AI Applications in the Contact Center

Upstream Works

After five years of providing what amounted to call center plumbing, we had really zeroed in on what call centers did and realized that the heart of a call center was and always will be the people that operate the phones. The contact center was even more complicated.

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5 Ways AI-powered Virtual Agents Improve CX in Utilities

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AI-powered virtual agents have come a long way since the days of “Press 1 for billing. This allows AI-powered virtual agents to follow complex dialogue at the rate of normal conversation — yes, even alphanumerical interactions, the most challenging type to capture. Press 2 for enrolling in new energy service.”

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Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center

Outsource Consultants

An article by Dan Miller raises an interesting point: Implementing virtual agents into your contact center isn’t staying ahead of the curve, it’s common. Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center. This blog post is based on an article from CustomerThink. We can help!

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Virtual Agents vs. Live Agents: The Battle for CSAT

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That’s where the use of an AI-powered virtual agent comes in — for a fraction of the cost of a human agent, an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) is available to assist customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When it comes to customer satisfaction, how do virtual agents compare with live agents?