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At last month’s LISTEN event, we were excited to award three customers with LISTEN Awards for their achievements in speech analytics success. The LISTEN awards were presented to customer engagement analytics users whose efforts had a direct impact on improving business results for their companies. Each year we are blown away by the business impact and innovation highlighted in the submissions for LISTEN Awards.
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