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How Monitoring Your IVR Helps Predict and Reduce Fraud in the Contact Center

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Fraudulent activity in the IVR has become a tool for more sophisticated fraudsters and scammers to gain sensitive data that puts contact centers and financial institutions at risk. . Fraudsters often use IVR systems to mine and validate information, which they subsequently leverage to commit fraud at various other touchpoints downstream.

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Why Multi-Level IVR Is a Game-Changer for Hosted PBX Services?

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Why Multi-Level IVR Is a Game-Changer for Hosted PBX Services? That was the decade during which Bell System, a former American telephone company, developed the basic form of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology. Multi-level IVR , which is widely used nowadays, was a massive step up from the traditional IVR.

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5 key trends shaping the contact centre in 2025

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According to Cross, the industry at large realised that simply turning on GenAI engines can prove counterproductive, with numerous companies running into AI-induced trouble. “Yet, the role and relevance of AI in the contact centre has never been clearer with an ever-expanding list of applications for the technology in the environment.”

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Improving your Interactive Voice Response, one subtask at a time

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As diligent managers and engineers of the Interactive Voice Response (IVR), we have a critical role in identifying and handling the tasks and subtasks that comprise the IVR. I want to share three keys for improving Interactive Voice Response for effectiveness.

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Achieve multi-Region resiliency for your conversational AI chatbots with Amazon Lex

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These include interactive voice response (IVR) systems, chatbots for digital channels, and messaging platforms, providing a seamless and resilient customer experience. Yogesh Khemka is a Senior Software Development Engineer at AWS, where he works on large language models and natural language processing.

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Two Ways to Modernize your IVR to Meet Today’s Customer Expectations

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If consumers can dim the lights, check the weather, and change the TV channel just by speaking, why can’t they request a refund or check the status of a flight in the same effortless way within your IVR? Many Interactive Voice Response systems (IVRs) haven’t caught up to these high expectations.

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Conversational AI 101: NLU and IVR for Beginners

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Then, adding in experienced software engineers to fine tune the system results in an IVA that is extremely accurate in speech detection. One way that IVA “levels up” from the typical IVR is that an IVA will utilize natural language understanding, or NLU. Speech recognition is identifying the words that a customer says.