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Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR: Webinar Highlights

Fonolo

A well-designed chatbot can be a powerful addition to your call center toolkit. By now, most of us have noticed that there’s a world of difference between a generative language model like ChatGPT, an AI-driven virtual assistant like Amazon’s Alexa, and the simple, self-service chatbots launched on many websites.

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Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR?

Fonolo

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?

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Reporting on Bots – Why It’s as Bad as IVRs Ever Were

Upstream Works

As a result, it is difficult to gauge the success of a chatbot in interacting with and meeting the needs of customers. To understand this issue, it’s helpful to look back at the history of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. As a result, the same IVR reporting problem exists today with CAI.

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Chatbots Won’t Save Us from IVR Hell

Fonolo

The IVR experience (“press 1 for this… press 2 for that…”) has long been part of the contact center. Many people see chatbots as a natural replacement for the core functions of the IVR. Second, most of the aspects of IVRs that make them hated are likely to translate directly to chatbot form. Chatbots to the Rescue?

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Artificial Intelligence in Cloud-Based Solutions

Speaker: Rick Nucci, Co-Founder & CEO of Guru

With the advent of chatbots, artificial intelligence, interactive voice response, and machine learning, novel technologies continue to disrupt the contact center industry. These advances initially gave the impression that automation will replace the human element.

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The Complete Guide to Visual IVR

Fonolo

Visual IVR – now known as Fonolo’s Web Call-Backs – was one of the first self-service technologies to have a hugely positive impact on the customer experience. What is Visual IVR? The original interactive voice response system (IVR) might be better known to customers as a phone menu. So, we understand IVRs.

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IVA, IVR, Chatbot, DTMF? What’s the difference?

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Next up, chatbots. Chatbots are commonly found on websites and offer a quick and convenient way to help customers. Unlike DTMF and IVRs, chatbots are intended to provide self-service options. While chatbots have been quite popular in the last decade, their actual technical ability is less-than-impressive.