Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Who is helping your customers when they have questions and problems outside of business hours? According to Gartner’s 2018 Best Practices for Implementing Extreme Customer Self-Service Report , by 2022, 85% of customer service interactions will start with self-service, up from 48% today.

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TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

The customer service industry, in particular, pinned high hopes on AI, expecting that upon its introduction to the market, smart machines would truly transform the customer experience. However, while AI has not yet become the answer to all our customer service challenges, the technology is moving forward at a rapid pace.

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SmartAction

MARCH 6, 2019

In November 2018, SmartAction’s AI-powered virtual agent solution was successfully tested by Avaya in its DevConnect program, a developer community and marketplace for third-party products that interoperate with Avaya technology ( read news release ). SmartAction is the leader in AI-powered virtual agent automation for voice and chat.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Customer experience automation is rapidly evolving, reshaping how companies engage with customers and clients. LLM-powered virtual assistants, chatbots, and virtual agents promise to become the new faces of customer experience automation. Are LLMs the right way approach to CX automation?

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Virtual Agent Chatbots Enterprise Wait times 124

Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2022

By Maria Ward, Account Manager & Knowledgebase Engineer. Back in 2014, the International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) published a report titled The Growing Need for Multilanguage Customer Support. Over half acknowledged that offering support in a customer’s native language was a competitive differentiator.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. To truly modernize your customer service, you don’t need to choose between AI or human involvement. You need both.

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SmartAction

JULY 29, 2021

Myth #1: Customers don’t use the phone for customer service anymore. Customer service can come in many different forms, thanks to our modernized world: email, online chat, social media, in-person, text. Virtual agents are made to take over the calls that require quick resolution with minimum human effort.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Customer experience automation is rapidly evolving, reshaping how companies engage with customers and clients. LLM-powered virtual assistants, chatbots, and virtual agents promise to become the new faces of customer experience automation. Are LLMs the right way approach to CX automation?

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Virtual Agent Chatbots Enterprise Wait times 109

UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. To truly modernize your customer service, you don’t need to choose between AI or human involvement. You need both.

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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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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. In contrast, Sophie AI is trained like today’s human agents and engineers. The possibilities are truly limitless.

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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. Or – wow, this is amazing – they are using their mobile phone to call your service centre. It’s not complicated.

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Netomi

AUGUST 31, 2022

At first glance, it seems that customer service KPI scores take a backseat to traditional business KPIs, like profits, costs and regional sales. However, key customer support metrics may paint a more complete picture of success for the long-term viability of a business. What is a customer service KPI dashboard?

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Metrics Customer Service Virtual Agent Average Handle Time 75

Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience. I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. Award Winner Second Year in a Row. Award Info.

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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. Or is it something else?”

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Self service Virtual Agent Chatbots Analytics 100

AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To support WaFd’s vision, Talkdesk has extended its self-service virtual agent voice and chat capabilities with an integration with Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly. Amazon Lex delivers fast responses to customers’ most common questions and seamlessly hands over complex cases to a human agent.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Conversational AI is making the contact center and customer service industries better than ever. The ability of conversational AI technology to detect and understand speech are two of the biggest challenges faced by the Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Speech recognition is identifying the words that a customer says.

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Balto

MARCH 3, 2025

Call center automation is transforming customer service operations across industries, shifting from traditional human-only models to a hybrid approach that blends technology with human expertise. This creates a more efficient workflow and reduces customer wait times.

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UJET

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There are examples of NLP in nearly every customer service process powered by AI. Companies at the forefront of customer experience solve some of the most frustrating human-software interactions and stay ahead of today’s customer expectations by applying advanced NLP machine learning. Fewer customer service runarounds.

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UJET

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There are examples of NLP in nearly every customer service process powered by AI. Companies at the forefront of customer experience solve some of the most frustrating human-software interactions and stay ahead of today’s customer expectations by applying advanced NLP machine learning. Fewer customer service runarounds.

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Virtual Agent Interactive Voice Response Chatbots Self service 72

SmartAction

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It’s hard enough for speech-to-text engines to get the audio right when composing a text message or speaking to a home device, which is a high def experience. There is a lot of custom work required in the area of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to augment the accuracy from speech recognition.

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SmartAction

MAY 23, 2023

FORT WORTH, Texas, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — SmartAction , a top-tier AI platform provider specializing in advanced Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) and conversational AI solutions, is proud to announce the successful closing of a new round of funding. For more information, visit www.tvccapital.com.

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SmartAction

JULY 10, 2024

Capacity empowers teams to do their best work and deliver valuable employee and customer experiences across channels. CereProc’s text-to-speech technology allows us to build on the industry-leading voice experiences we are already delivering to our customers.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Self service Engineering 65

AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 8, 2024

By integrating generative AI, they can now analyze call transcripts to better understand customer pain points and improve agent productivity. Additionally, they are using generative AI to extract key call drivers, optimize agent workflows, and gain deeper insights into customer sentiment.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 1, 2020

In fact, something bizarre happened on the way to the new decade: The most hated form of customer service has become one of the most preferred. There has been great innovation in voice self-service engines, as reflected by the offerings from Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft. The Business Opportunity.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Customer service is a crucial aspect of any business, as it can affect customer satisfaction, retention, and loyalty. However, providing high-quality customer service can be challenging, especially in the era of digital transformation, where customers expect fast, personalized, and seamless interactions across multiple channels.

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Netomi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Companies are launching their best AI chatbots to carry on 1:1 conversations with customers and employees. AI powered chatbots are also capable of automating various tasks, including sales and marketing, customer service, and administrative and operational tasks. Best AI Chatbot for Customer Service: Netomi. .

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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

APRIL 16, 2020

By Laura Ludmany, Knowledgebase Engineer. Delivering excellent customer service is more important than ever, as it can be a real ‘make it or break it’ experience for customers looking for quick answers in these uncertain times. I love looking after several projects, as I always get fresh ideas and it’s never a dull day.

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Customer Support Virtual Agent Banking Self service 52

Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

How can organizations more effectively direct customers to the knowledge they’re looking for? Gartner’s newest customer service report “Delivering Relevant Content and Knowledge to Customers Is Key to Great Customer Service” focuses on just these dilemmas. List your CX goals beforehand.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 7, 2020

By Laura Ludmany, Knowledgebase Engineer. What does this mean from the customer service and customer experience (CX) view and for virtual agents answering real time customer queries? The post Customer Service Week Musings: How does a machine know if it’s wrong?

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Creative Virtual

MAY 13, 2021

The same is true for customer service strategies. Those that achieve real success are part of a bigger customer experience (CX) approach that is designed to create an integrated, coordinated strategy. Every piece is important and must be linked together to create a cohesive, seamless experience.

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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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Dialer 360

DECEMBER 4, 2024

An outbound call is initiated by a company to reach out to potential customers. Inbound Sales: inbound sales use a variety of pull tactics to draw clients, such as organic social media marketing, search engine optimization, and content marketing. Implement a virtual agent that can work across channels.

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SmartAction

MAY 23, 2019

Project Manager – aligns all resources (CX Design, Engineering, IT, QA) to deploy solutions quickly. It is their job to outline the business goals that need to be achieved, and generate excitement about contact center transformation via AI-powered virtual agents. Solutions Expert – architects the solution roadmap and ROI.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 23, 2020

Customers change their opinion about a brand based on a bad customer experience, which shows that all interactions count. The 21st-century customer is extremely demanding and seeks real-time, personalized, effective and immediate customer service to solve their problems.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Virtual Agent Cloud contact Chatbots 52

3CLogic

JANUARY 24, 2024

Is your organization looking to better understand customer sentiment and responses, hoping to gain better knowledge of customer intent while also improving agent performance? AI in customer service does have its limitations. Potential AI Limitations and Pitfalls Let's address the elephant in the room.

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