ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2018

When it comes to instant support, we think of live chat and chatbots. This confusion takes us to the never-ending debate of Live Chat vs Chatbots. Chatbot Pros. Handling capacity – While live chat may be far more responsive than voice, it still depends on human agents, thus limiting its handling capacity.

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CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

During the Customer Experience Question of the Day (#CXQOTD), a daily CX question we pose to the CX community, we asked, ,, “What are your favorite ways to listen to the voice of customer without surveys?” The response was so good that it begged to be a blog post. Interact with the chatbot on your website.

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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?

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Upstream Works

MARCH 3, 2023

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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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

But even if you’re already evaluating your chat and email interactions, you may need to expand your QM program to address an even bigger gap in the customer experience — your online assistants/chatbots and IVR. 3) Determine frequency of evaluation. 4) Create a feedback mechanism.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Understanding the key differences between IVR and IVA is crucial for businesses looking to optimize their customer service. A way to see the differences between IVR and IVA is to learn the pros and cons of each.

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TeleDirect

MARCH 13, 2025

Call centers are essential for managing customer interactions, providing technical support, and enhancing customer satisfaction. In this blog, we will explore the different types of call center services, their benefits, and how businesses can leverage them for success. Q2: How do call centers handle high call volumes?

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Zappix

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Visual IVR: Streamlining Customer Navigation Visual IVR is revolutionizing the way customers interact with contact centers. Unlike traditional voice-based IVR systems, where customers must listen to and navigate through voice menus, Visual IVR offers a graphical, touch-based experience on the customer’s mobile device.

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NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Front-End Customer Interactions You Should Automate Automated Call Routing and IVR Systems Long wait times and misrouted calls are a thing of the past with intelligent interactive voice response (IVR) systems and dynamic call routing.

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Zappix

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Top 5 Ways Digital Engagement Drives Customer Loyalty Across Industries Customers expect quick, seamless, and personalized interactions with the brands they love. Digital engagement tools, such as visual IVR, chatbots, and SMS workflows, have emerged as essential components for creating these impactful experiences.

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Blueship Call Center

APRIL 8, 2025

AI-Powered Chatbots Automates responses to common customer inquiries, reducing wait times and enhancing self-service options. Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Allows customers to navigate through automated menus to find information quickly. The post What is Cloud Contact Center Services?

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #2 of 4: Seeking th e Root Cause and Affecting the Right Outcome. Watch for our next blog in this series, coming October 21st: Constant Learning Improves AI Recommendations. Understanding Why Transforms the Customer Experience. It’s doable.

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 17, 2025

In this blog post, we list the importance of customer support in the microfinance sector, the key challenges microfinance companies face in delivering timely customer service, understanding average call waiting time, factors responsible for high wait time in call centers, and seven effective strategies to reduce call waiting time.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #1 of 4: The Customer Experience. The reality is that “customer experience” is more than a single engagement or interaction with your organization. Customer Perception = Their Reality. What is it? Why should they care, if you don’t? Source: PWC/Bains and Co. Source: PWC/Bains and Co.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Speed, simplicity, and the ability to express their needs fluently without the hassles of navigating chatbots or sifting through help articles. This is where the transformative potential of conversational AI in the voice channel shines. Leveraging Telephony for Enhanced Customer Engagement So, what do customers truly desire?

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Aspect

JULY 12, 2017

As companies are exploring the use of customer service chatbots, one of the first candidates of content that come to mind to “botify” is the existing FAQs often represented on corresponding sections on a website. In reality though, it takes a bit more to build a chatbot that really does a good job of serving customers.

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). In our last blog , we explored how successful companies outperform customer expectations by leveraging video – a communications channel that customers have come to prefer. Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents. Chatbots for Customers (31.0%

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Register for our upcoming webinar “When, How and Why Customers Self-Help” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of Contact Babel and John Cray, Vice President – Product Management, Enghouse Interactive. Digital literacy is the new normal.

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Hodusoft

MARCH 26, 2025

In this blog post, we have discussed some major issues e-commerce companies face in customer service and how leveraging sophisticated contact center software such as HoduCC omnichannel contact center software and CX suite can help them resolve the challenges. For an e-commerce professional, this blog post can be immensely valuable.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 21, 2022

Self-service options like chatbots and virtual agents are increasingly preferred by customers, but they can’t – and shouldn’t! The agent should have full visibility of the customer’s conversation with the chatbot so they can pick it up right where the self-service experience ended. completely replace human contact center agents.

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Aspect

JUNE 19, 2017

Last week’s CXP series post covered using CX Designer for self-service application creation and today we are going to continue the series by covering the additional capabilities that take our chatbot creation platform to a new level. The applications’ designs tend to focus on tightly constrained responses to specific prompts.

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REVE Chat Blog

APRIL 15, 2020

With businesses adopting chatbot technology, customers are also willing to be helped by virtual assistants. By using customer service chatbots, businesses can meet the most common customer expectation i.e. getting prompt support round the clock. With chatbots for customer service, you can resolve common queries at scale.

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AWS Machine Learning

JULY 29, 2022

In traditional contact centers, one solution for long hold times is enabling self-service options for customers using an Interactive Voice Response system (IVR). An IVR uses a set of automated menu options to help reduce agent call volumes by addressing common frequently asked requests without involving a live agent.

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2023

A standard IVR is frustrating for about 46% of the callers , who say that the unending, pre-recorded IVRs are a terrible experience. Thankfully, with conversational AI-based IVRs, you can turn this metric around for your customers. There is more to conversational AI IVR than just that – which is what this blog is about.

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Aspect

DECEMBER 27, 2017

2016 saw an explosion of interest and investments in chatbots, as I wrote in my last annual recap. Much like in 2016, this year I’ve had countless conversations about chatbot needs with numerous customers, prospects, and partners around the globe, and it’s clear to me that as an industry we have made progress. Let’s have a look.

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Hodusoft

APRIL 2, 2025

If you are in the telecom sector, this blog post is just for you! That’s because automated tools such as interactive voice response (IVR) systems and chatbots, can quickly direct customers to the right resources or provide instant responses to common queries. You definitely shouldn’t.

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Spearline

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The future of customer interactions The best contact centers offer a range of communication methods to suit personal preferences and the purpose of the interaction. Automated systems, chatbots, and interactive voice response (IVR) are ideally suited to simple interactions.

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Call Design

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Genesis of Automation and IVR. Attempts to automate phone-based customer interactions have been around for decades. First-generation IVR (interactive voice response) systems were one of the first systems to automatically interact with a customer through voice recognition and/or keypad inputs.

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’ll help you learn everything about FCR in this blog post. The same can be done on call support through interactive voice response (IVR). A lot of them would avoid having a conversation with a chatbot because it lacks the human touch they need. Read: Live Chat vs Chatbots.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #4 of 4 The MORE you know. As we saw in yesterday’s webinar, both enhancing the Customer Experience (CX) and understanding the Voice of the Customer (VoC) are inextricably linked… for the better. Key Learnings from Kate Leggett and Steve Nattress. The more YOU KNOW. .

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Fonolo

MARCH 7, 2023

Self-service lets users resolve problems without waiting for an agent’s response and lightens the load on your customer support team. Examples include FAQ sections on websites, chatbots, help center blog forums, self-service account creation, password resetting, and interactive voice technology in call centers.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience. 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.

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Avaya

MARCH 28, 2017

I recently attended Jeff Pulver’s 2017 MoNage conference to get the latest views on chatbot usage and expectations for serving customers. Jeff Pulver created the Voice over the Net Conference when voice over the internet was in its infancy. Chatbots enable a customer to answer questions via text. He probably is right.

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Aspect

JUNE 1, 2018

Missteps that could have been avoided with a conversational chatbot with the option to transfer directly to a live agent. Had this been a chatbot, transferring to a live agent could have provided clarity with a human touch. I mean, they designed a chatbot that can suggest the right wine when you send it a ch icken emoji.

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Zappix

MARCH 19, 2025

Customers would dial in, navigate an IVR system, and wait on hold for an available agent. People demand fast, seamless, and convenient interactions across multiple touchpoints, including phone, email, chat, SMS, social media, and self-service portals. Higher Customer Satisfaction Faster resolutions lead to better experiences.

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CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

During the Customer Experience Question of the Day (#CXQOTD), a daily CX question we pose to the CX community, we asked, ,, “What are your favorite ways to listen to the voice of customer without surveys?” The response was so good that it begged to be a blog post. Interact with the chatbot on your website.

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REVE Chat Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Some of the successful chatbot examples and case studies implemented by big brands show that customers are willing to interact with bots if done correctly. Hence following a right bot strategy and tailoring your chatbot to meet your use case plays an important role in overall customer experience.

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