Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

From knowledge bases to virtual agents, the potential disruption that a solid set of self-service applications can bring to contact center efficiency and customer experience is unquestionable and justifies all the buzz. Additionally, virtual agents can provide sustainable 24/7 support for many contact centers.

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LiveVox

APRIL 28, 2021

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. The post What are Chatbots & How are They Different from IVR and Virtual Agents?

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

LLM-powered virtual assistants, chatbots, and virtual agents promise to become the new faces of customer experience automation. This could be by automating common tasks performed by agents, or by augmenting agent knowledge and training with virtual agent assistants.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 7, 2022

Virtual agents. Some of you may remember the days when companies wanting to implement customer support on their website believed they had to make a decision: either a virtual agent or live chat; either automated self-service or human-assisted web chat. Adding a virtual agent to an existing live chat deployment.

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kommunicate

AUGUST 17, 2022

The post What is a Virtual Agent? Last Updated on August 17, 2022 Today, the bots quickly responding to a query has become a thing, and it is only for the good of a business. 41% of customers prefer to interact on live chat, and 79% of them like it for fast responses. These studies indicate the potential of live chats and [.].

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kommunicate

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Last Updated on November 3, 2023 We all know how chatbots are powerful virtual agents that can help you in a myriad of tasks, including automating customer support, answering FAQs, etc. We have also seen how CRM systems can help you grow your business swiftly, and how a powerful synergy of CRMs and Chatbots can [.]

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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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LiveVox

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Are you still wondering what all the chatbot hype is about? Although these virtual assistants are not chatbots per se, they are audio chatbots, if you will. The post Meet eLVee, LiveVox’s New AI Virtual Agent appeared first on Livevox. The benefits of implementing a […].

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CCNG

APRIL 12, 2024

Call routing, interactive voice response and voice-based chatbots are a few examples of that technology. Let’s take modern chatbots for example. You have probably heard of virtual agents in some capacity, generative AI is the logic and fuel behind IVA’s. Automation for a long time required programming.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is something that organisations implementing a self-service virtual agent or chatbot should keep in mind, regardless of whether they are integrating it with live chat. Make it obvious that it is a digital, automated tool with wording such as ‘Please ask our Virtual Agent’.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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Connect

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Utilising virtual agents in contact centres isn’t exactly a novel concept, but trends towards newer and more intelligent systems have been improving the customer service landscape. Virtual agents aren’t replacing staff, they’re making them better. Customers are trending towards virtual agents.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Chatbots and virtual agents have proven themselves to be quality self-service solutions, being increasingly implemented by smart organisations to provide support and being increasingly preferred by customers and employees for quick, easy access to information. By Mandy Reed, Marketing Manager (Global).

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

In this post, we are focusing on the chat channel to show how to use Amazon Lex and the Amazon Lex Web UI to enable live agents to interact with your customers in real time. For example, the following figure shows screenshots of a chatbot transitioning a customer to a live agent chat (courtesy of WaFd Bank).

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

AI-powered conversational assistants, or “virtual agents”, can quickly deliver the answers and outcomes over voice-enabled channels. When you already have a deep knowledge base, a strong CRM engine and the conversational transcript, it is time to build a virtual agent that can turn any time into your prime time for great CX.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Having worked in the virtual agent and chatbot field since 2000, I’ve experienced first-hand how these solutions and technologies have changed. The virtual agents of today are certainly not the same as those I was working on 20 years ago. Most recently, the industry has adopted the name of ‘conversational AI’.

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Interactions

AUGUST 13, 2020

These transactions can be handled by a simple chatbot or IVR system, as not much advanced functionality is needed. A deep knowledge of the customer experience space and conversational design is needed to determine when a live agent, a virtual agent, or both should be used in a given situation.

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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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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 8, 2019

Our customer, Transport for New South Wales, won an impressive three awards for their RITA chatbot during 2018! I couldn’t be more proud of what our team has achieved, and it was beyond what I had dreamt for Creative Virtual. In 2017 we were honoured with The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 10, 2020

Back in April I took a look at the impressive spike in virtual agent traffic starting in late February and early March that surpassed anything Creative Virtual had seen in over 16 years of being in the industry. I’m curious to continue to watch how virtual agent traffic fluctuates as coronavirus-related restrictions change.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

We had more enquiries this year than ever before about using virtual agent and chatbot technology internally to support contact centre agents, relationship managers and other employees. Another organisation is using our natural language processing (NLP) capabilities to enhance their agent desktop.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Recent headlines, like the issues faced by Air Canada with its website chatbots, spotlight a critical junction in this journey: the choice of a self-service provider. It’s a stark reminder that not all solutions (chatbots or AI-driven voice) are created equal. Here’s where the story gets interesting.

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Solvvy

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chances are, the last time you called a customer support number, you interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot. If the company had a great AI chatbot, the interaction might have been so natural that it took a while to realize that you weren’t actually talking to a human. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Chatbots.

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SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2019

These omnichannel solutions are known as AI-powered virtual agents. What is an AI-powered virtual agent? At the most basic level, an AI-powered virtual agent can do many things that a live agent can do. By doing so, companies upskill their live agents to do only what a human should do.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Conversational chatbots are one of the top market disruptors in call center automation. However, in recent years their use has declined as businesses have learned how difficult it is to properly maintain a chatbot that actually helps customers to accomplish their goals. Why is it So Hard to Implement and Maintain a Chatbot?

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Creative Virtual

JULY 8, 2021

This is most certainly true when it comes to creating chatbots for customer self-service, and too often organisations fall into the DIY trap. Some companies delegate their project solely to an inexperienced internal team because they underestimate the amount of expertise needed to build and deploy a working chatbot. Probably not.

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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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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When customers use your chatbot to self-serve, what kind of experience do you deliver? Does your chatbot need questions asked a particular way to return the correct response? Are users repeatedly told by your chatbot to try rephrasing an input that doesn’t have a direct match in the system?

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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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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 17, 2023

Chatbots and conversational AI have been gaining acceptance as essential pieces of successful customer service and employee support strategies. Unfortunately, as adoption of this technology is increasing so is the oversaturation of the market with poor performing chatbot products. By Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Personalization and Relevance Creating a personal touch in your order management virtual agent can significantly enhance customer experience and engagement. This might mean providing voice updates for visually impaired customers or ensuring your website’s chatbot is compatible with screen readers.

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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. How does a Chatbot Revolutionize Customer Experience?

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Netomi

MARCH 21, 2023

From product recommendations to one-on-one personal shopping and customer support to order management, the use cases for ecommerce chatbot solutions are endless. The need for eCommerce chatbots has never been higher than it is today. What are the top use cases for eCommerce chatbots? Here are our favorite use cases: 1.

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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. If you’re not using AI in the form of bots, virtual agents, or other methods, you’re behind the curve.

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