SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

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. Contact center managers who embrace and implement this technology reap the rewards of increased efficiency, reduced costs, and a customer experience that fosters loyalty.

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LiveVox

APRIL 28, 2021

The rapid evolution of AI has generated an adoption boom of automation and RPA by contact centers. The three main capabilities are chatbots, conversational IVR, and virtual agents, with diverse use cases spanning everything from customer service management, payment processing, and generating and qualifying leads.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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?

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots. We end by explaining how contact centers can keep AI models up to date using Talkdesk AI Trainer.

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SmartAction

JUNE 27, 2023

Embrace automation for contact center success in 2023! Are you ready to take your contact center to the next level? So, why are some contact centers still hesitant to implement AI? Let’s address the common objections and show you how to overcome them with conversational AI and virtual agents.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

The contact center was even more complicated. The contact center agent’s life was not easy, and we saw it just getting more and more complicated. UpStart was designed with one thing in mind – to simplify the life of the contact center agent.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player. Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player. Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Contact centers around the world are celebrating Customer Service Week this week, recognizing their agents who deliver service and support to customers all year long. But many of those contact centers are missing an important team member. They are missing a chatbot. By Mandy Reed, Marketing Manager (Global).

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

The primary goal of contact center businesses revolves around improving customer experience. Empowering your contact center business with automated solutions can take your customer interactions to new heights of success. What is Contact Center Automation?

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Outsource Consultants

JULY 10, 2018

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. Need an omnichannel contact center to drive an elite customer experience?

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Who is answering calls when your contact center is closed? AI-powered conversational assistants, or “virtual agents”, can quickly deliver the answers and outcomes over voice-enabled channels. The post Improving customer experience with a virtual agent appeared first on Talkdesk.

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JustCall

AUGUST 8, 2023

Contact centers are a great example of how technology can be used to make jobs more efficient. Previously, contact center agents had to physically dial multiple numbers every day. Machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and other forms of AI are bound to make lives easier for these agents.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

2023 was all about chatbots. FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? With their narrow conversation flows and questions that often don’t lead to an answer – or an agent – chatbots don’t always seem all that revolutionary. If your chatbot seems like an IVR, are you doing something wrong? Join us Oct.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Contact centers specifically are rife with opportunities to incorporate AI and automation. Let’s explore the concept of usable AI and three key areas to consider as you incorporate AI and automation into your contact center. By automating internal processes, you should be improving your agent experience.

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Balto

JULY 5, 2023

The contact center is no different. Here’s the truth: The march of progress means at some point, human agents will likely be mostly replaced and automated by AI. You can prepare your contact center for an AI-powered future by implementing new strategies in the present. But we’re not there yet. So what’s next?

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SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2019

The cost and effort to build automation that isn’t very good or might not even work (and isn’t omnichannel) is why most contact centers have an over-reliance on live agents, even for the most routine and repetitive call types. These omnichannel solutions are known as AI-powered virtual agents. Claim Management.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Conversational chatbots are one of the top market disruptors in call center automation. Beginning in 2017, the use of chat bots in call centers grew in popularity and became widely utilized. Why is it So Hard to Implement and Maintain a Chatbot? The first day of deployment is the best day of the chatbot’s “life.”

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Customer Service centers have placed high hopes on chatbots, investing large sums in the technology’s automated ability to help customers help themselves. With the right tools, chatbots can be transformed into superheroes that handle huge volumes of customer inquiries, while improving CX and reducing costs.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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. What is an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA)?

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

For some time now, Chatbots have become famous in contact centers. It is an artificial intelligence tool that can be described as a virtual agent. As a result, a Chatbot is presented as a real solution for improving customer experience in a call center.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

This is how important customer experience is, especially in the context of contact centers. While your call agents strive for favorable first-call resolution metrics, your business should focus on providing them with the right customer contact center software that lets them do their job well.

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Balto

JUNE 20, 2023

And if you’re still relying on a traditional contact center model with long wait times, scripted interactions, and frustrated customers, your business is destined to lose a lot of customers, and concurrently, money. Modern contact centers can use conversational AI to meet customer demands. What is Conversational AI ?

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028. from 2023 to 2028.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 21, 2022

When we do need or prefer to make a phone call to speak with someone, a bad experience is made worse by the knowledge that there are ways to make support calls less painful which many contact centers aren’t utilizing. completely replace human contact center agents.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 1, 2021

The following Q&A is part of a series on creating a sustainable work-from-home contact center. Each post examines a vital technology that supports contact centers in the transition to a permanent remote-work model.

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Revation Systems

OCTOBER 14, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Revation Systems, a leader in cloud-based, compliant messaging and communications, today announced the company has been included in the list of 2021 ‘Hot Vendors in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Intelligent Contact Center’ by Aragon Research.

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Altivon

MARCH 20, 2018

Chatbots, Omnichannel and Cloud are three top trends for contact centers. Chatbots: Prosperous Future or Disaster? Through better web-based content, enhanced IVR, the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual agents and, yes, chatbots. The value of efficiency is probably obvious. How is that possible?

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Quiq

MARCH 6, 2023

Does your chatbot sound like a robot? Okay, chatbots are robots (hence the name), but they don’t have to sound like something out of a 70s sci-fi flick. Chatbots have come a long way and are getting better at understanding and mimicking human interactions. Here are some ways to make your chatbot sound more human.

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The Northridge Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In the contact center, one thing is certain: positive human connections between agents and customers are critical to building brand loyalty. In an industry that places an emphasis on human contact, what role does AI play in the contact center and how can data gathered from it be used to improve the customer experience?

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the course of 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) became mainstream for contact centers. As with cloud adoption, the promise of AI has become compelling enough that contact center leaders are no longer wondering if it has a place in their plans. Workflow automation is an important contact center use case for AI.

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NICE inContact

MAY 11, 2021

This might be a scary notion for agents who are sensitive to job security but rest assured that human agent jobs aren’t going away. The Contact Center is still inherently a forum for human engagement. The reality is, bots and virtual agents will be a complement to their human counterparts, not a replacement.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In their whitepaper The Virtual Insurance Agent , ITL takes a detailed look at how conversational AI is allowing insurance companies to greatly improve their customer experiences while also reducing costs. Improve agent experience and boost productivity. Reduce contact center traffic and alleviate pressure on busy live agents.

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SmartAction

APRIL 1, 2020

SmartAction is responding to the current crisis with a Rapid Response Virtual Agent that intercepts callers with a seamless channel switching experience to answer commonly asked questions and even screen callers to create an escalation path (e.g. How a Rapid Response Virtual Agent Works. For a live demo, visit [link].

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Talkdesk

APRIL 23, 2020

However, many companies have not yet addressed the most basic weaknesses in their contact centers. The scalability and flexibility of a cloud contact center presents itself as the best solution, allowing companies to better align investment according to their growth.

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