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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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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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Use AI-based virtual assistants – Millennials are very open to communication with virtual entities – chatbots – including voice-based assistants and visual virtual technician. According to a Retale poll, 86% of Millennials said that brands should use chatbots to promote products and services.

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Connect

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Furthermore, the extracted insights ultimately provide the knowledge sources needed to fully embrace AI-based automation in the business, which supports solutions like chatbots and virtual agents, eventually leading to AI agents.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Underpinned by state-of-the-art technology, you can now have a conversation with virtual agents who will understand customer needs and address them quickly. AI-Powered Chatbots AI-driven chatbots have evolved into sophisticated virtual assistants.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Conversational AI (aka intelligent chatbots or virtual agents) combines artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to streamline customer interactions across channels. Simplifying the creation and maintenance of virtual agents across the enterprise is critical. Essentially, it is what makes a Virtual Agent smart.

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TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2017, all eyes were on chatbots and virtual agents – the assumption being that they would take over a significant part of the customer interaction and deliver real value in communicating with customers. Virtual Agents. A major driver for the chatbot disappointment in 2017 was the inflated expectations.

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Balto

MARCH 3, 2025

The most effective automation tools include: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems AI-powered chatbots Automated email responses Virtual agents for basic troubleshooting Call center automation refers to the strategic use of technology to handle repetitive and time-consuming tasks within a call center.

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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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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As a Generative AI enterprise platform, Sophie AI is built to secularly observe, learn and interact at scale, helping your agents, engineers and end-customers. These chatbots demanded a lot of effort from users and administrators. In contrast, Sophie AI is trained like today’s human agents and engineers.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In the second part of this series, we describe how to use the Amazon Lex chatbot UI with Talkdesk CX Cloud to allow customers to transition from a chatbot conversation to a live agent within the same chat window. These virtual agents can automate routine tasks as well as seamlessly elevate complex interactions to a live agent.

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Connect

APRIL 18, 2024

It is costly and complex to build out Gen AI capabilities as creating the modelling needed to derive insights from AI engines is intensive, requiring scarce and expensive resources like data scientists and other technical experts. As such, the journey to Gen AI requires careful planning and implementation.

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Inbenta

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to Grammarly, the software is fed with data about grammar rules and spelling by their team of linguists and deep learning engineers who have designed algorithms that learn the rules and patterns of good writing, by analyzing millions of sentences from research text. Virtual agents and chatbots.

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UJET

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Advanced NLP algorithms collect and learn from a diverse range of human voices , which means the speech engine can recognize a language no matter the accent or impediment. It can also help virtual assistants offer better sets of options that lead to a faster, more satisfying resolution. More empathetic responses to unhappy customers.

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UJET

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Advanced NLP algorithms collect and learn from a diverse range of human voices , which means the speech engine can recognize a language no matter the accent or impediment. It can also help virtual assistants offer better sets of options that lead to a faster, more satisfying resolution. More empathetic responses to unhappy customers.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

By suppressing audio that isn’t speech-based, speech recognition engines driven by AI – will be more accurate in capturing conversations, which will ultimately lead to better customer experiences. Virtual Agent. A second virtual agent use case is assisting or coaching agents during the interaction with customers.

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Inbenta

AUGUST 23, 2024

Instead of long wait times, virtual agents can guide customers instantly and autonomously, answering questions and providing support without the need for a human on the other end. An AI-powered chatbot can make the whole customer journey smoother, from navigating coverage details to filing claims.

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Liveops

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Why every contact center needs social engineering training. Another item that drew a lot of interest on Contact Center Pipeline is a piece that aims to raise awareness of social engineering by people who call agents and threaten to leave horrible reviews on social media unless they are provided information that is otherwise confidential.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 9, 2020

They are speaking into their mobile devices to create messages on apps such as WhatsApp or Telegram, asking their search engine for information or giving commands to smart speakers like Amazon Alexa or Google Home. A variety of smart speakers , like Alexa, Cortana or Google Home, can be integrated with our self-service virtual agents.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2018

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology coupled with consumer preference for digital channels, is driving interest in and adoption of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and a related technology, robotic process automation (RPA). Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs). Technology. How it Works.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I don’t need to tell you that not everything went as planned, but there were still some bright spots for us and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. Creative Virtual started 2020 celebrating the company’s Sweet Sixteen. 2020 was a record-breaking year for use of our virtual agent and chatbot implementations.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 16, 2020

By Laura Ludmany, Knowledgebase Engineer. The product owner of the virtual agent also works closely with their live chat department, enabling the bank to fully optimise their virtual agent content based on their live chat agents’ feedback.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We’re coming up on eighteen years since I founded Creative Virtual, and so much has changed in the chatbot and virtual agent space since those early days. It draws from our nearly two decades of experience in the industry to deliver updates to our chatbot, virtual agent, and live chat technologies.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 14, 2020

By Laura Ludmany, Knowledgebase Engineer. We can always clearly see social patterns and trends being reflected in the usage of our virtual agents. In the last 4 weeks, on average, the traffic of our banking virtual agents has doubled. Naturally, we are all seeking reassurance, guidance, help and support.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 3, 2018

By Laura Ludmany, Knowledgebase Engineer. Chatbot technologies are becoming more and more common in the business world, but I think most companies have not realized yet how interdisciplinary these artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be. But what about the long-term pros of having a chatbot? Long-term benefits go beyond that.

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REVE Chat Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You can respond to your customers faster with AI enabled chatbots. You can use chatbots as the first point of contact for 24×7 customer engagement and filtering the complex conversations. The chat is handed over to the human agent to deliver comprehensive support. virtual agents. FAQ pages . Infographics.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

By Maria Ward, Account Manager/Knowledgebase Engineer. Even though it was the fourth year Creative Virtual sponsored the joint events, it was my first opportunity to represent the company, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. He outlined Creative Virtual’s top tips for implementing chatbot, virtual agent and live chat technology.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 26, 2023

In some cases, one might be willing to accept a certain risk in exchange for very efficiently making large chunks of information available to a chatbot. However its knowledge is not limitless and so on its own it will not have large parts of the information needed for specific chatbot use cases.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In any case, these three applications can make major contributions to enterprises, customers, and agents, and should be considered by all contact centers as they begin to plan their 2018 budgets. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs). The acquired knowledge is assimilated and leveraged in future interactions.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 11, 2019

2019 was another busy and exciting year for Creative Virtual and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. We continued our five-year-long celebration of our Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2017 as we also celebrated the 15th anniversary of Creative Virtual.

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SmartAction

MAY 9, 2019

This combination has led to the growing adoption of AI-powered virtual agents to automate conversations traditionally handed by live agents. You end up needing to train separate AI engines for each channel and build out unique integrations to customer data for each engine.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 23, 2020

Thus, the adoption of innovations is limited and engineers and researchers compete in a demotivating internal struggle for access to storage. In addition, sometimes integrations with CRM tools and customer databases are too rigid or non-existent to provide agents with context.

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Xaqt

JUNE 3, 2020

We refer to this as Human-Assisted Conversational AI, or Human-in-the-Loop, and its a key reason why Xaqt's Conversational Service Automation platform and Virtual Agents continually outperform the market in terms of accuracy and the quality of customer experience we deliver. These are data and skills that most organizations lack.

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JustCall

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At its core, an AI agent is a system designed to perceive its environment, make decisions, and take action all without human intervention. These agents can exist in many forms, from recommendation engines that personalize your Netflix queue to self-driving cars that navigate traffic. AI voice agents.

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Netomi

AUGUST 31, 2022

You’ll want to track and recognize your agents who have the lowest average handle time, highest first contact resolution, solve a large volume of tickets, deliver high CSAT and more. Ensure your agent desk platform allows you to drill down to specific agent performance, including both human and AI-powered virtual agents.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Utilize AI-Powered Chatbots and Virtual Assistants By 2025, AI-driven chatbots and virtual assistants will be right at the center of customer engagement for many businesses. They offer immediate support, route regular queries, and when needed, escalate issues to human agents. Satisfaction will improve overall.

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