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What is Conversational AI and How Does it Work?

DMG Consulting

These applications deliver a persistent and consistent user experience across all touchpoints to reduce customer effort and enhance the customer experience (CX) while increasing self-service automation. without the help of a live agent, salesperson, or other employee.

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Steering the Shift to Conversational IVR

TechSee

Interactive voice response (IVR) allows a company’s computer system to engage with customers through voice and touch-tone telephone keypads. Today, it is evolving into the Conversational IVR model that offers much more than a simple customer routing system. Press 2 to speak to a representative.

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Call Center Automation: Definition, Trends, Benefits, & Use Cases

Balto

Smart routing systems direct complex issues to skilled agents while resolving simple queries automatically. This creates a more efficient workflow and reduces customer wait times. The system learns from historical data to forecast customer demand with up to 95% accuracy.

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Applications that Improve the Customer Journey

DMG Consulting

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). Customer Benefit. Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs). Technology.

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Virtual Agents in the Contact Center: Data Gathering Made Easy

NICE inContact

But there are dozens of other processes in which agents collect information from a customer over the phone, and these calls aren’t just long, they’re expensive. With virtual agents, the process of gathering data can be fully contained within automation, so that live agents don’t have to do the boring and redundant tasks.

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The AI-Powered Virtual Agent by Frost & Sullivan

SmartAction

The following is an excerpt from Frost & Sullivan’s white paper, “The AI-Powered Virtual Agent: Actionable Strategies for Contact Center Leaders.”. Read the full paper to find out how leading companies are using cloud-based virtual agents to automate more in their contact centers. Meeting High Customer Expectations.

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Expert Perspectives: Digital Insights from HfS Research Director

HGS

Balancing self-service and digital—including human assistance, when needed—is a significant customer service focus area. Customer service solutions that pre-empt and solve customer inquiries—before requiring agent assistance—are driving self-service as a solution to decrease customer effort.