ConvergeOne

APRIL 23, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of customer service technology, businesses are equipped with an arsenal of tools designed to elevate user experiences and optimize service delivery. Among these tools, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Virtual Agents (VA) , Agent Assist (AA) , and Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) are prominent.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When it comes to customer service, businesses have a variety of tools at their disposal to make the process as smooth and efficient as possible. Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Let’s break down the difference between IVR and IVA.

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SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2019

IVR automation has been around for awhile, but for the most part, it just hasn’t been very good. Everyone knows the limitations of IVR systems, and customers have a gag reflex when they hear most call automation. These omnichannel solutions are known as AI-powered virtual agents. What is an AI-powered virtual agent?

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SmartAction

APRIL 11, 2024

Use a natural, empathetic voice. No one wants to listen to an unfriendly, unhelpful, and inhuman voice. Your IVR voice should be warm and friendly, evoking the feeling that the caller can see a smile on the speaker’s face. If all of your customers are senior citizens, use a more mature voice. It’s a valuable tool.

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UJET

MARCH 22, 2021

The IVR isn’t a topic that gets enough coverage. We gravitate to the shinier objects and tend to focus more on the agent experience, omnichannel, and artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, your IVR can be one of the biggest drivers of good vs bad CX. And the IVR is at the heart of that journey. Modernizing Your IVR.

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Interactions

JANUARY 21, 2025

Thats what you risk if youre still relying on outdated solutions like chatbots or interactive voice response (IVR) tools. Heres how an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) that blends technology with the human touch can deliver the personalized, caring support your customers crave when the next crisis hits.

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Balto

MARCH 3, 2025

Smart automation targets repetitive tasks like appointment scheduling and basic inquiries, freeing up human agents to handle complex issues that require empathy and critical thinking. Smart routing systems direct complex issues to skilled agents while resolving simple queries automatically.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, amid this myriad of options, the voice channel remains a powerful yet often overlooked tool in the customer service arsenal. Conversational AI, with its specific intents and data-driven capabilities, empowers virtual agents with readily available customer information, ensuring personalized interactions.

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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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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

For instance, IVRs and artificial intelligence enabled Chatbots can make the customer service easier and efficient. Chatbots which work like virtual agents can solve basic query and transfer a call to ‘live agents’ in case of escalation. A good CRM tool can also be put in place.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience. The AI-powered voice assistants of today offer a seamless experience, reaching a virtual assistant, in seconds, that can answer customer intentions with just a few words.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Voice bots, or conversational interactive voice response systems (IVR), use natural language processing (NLP) to understand customers’ questions and provide relevant answers. Businesses can automate responses to frequently asked transactional questions by deploying bots that are available 24/7.

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LiveVox

AUGUST 26, 2023

Inbound call volume has surged to unprecedented levels since the onset of the pandemic, and conversational IVR programming is an invaluable tool to help manage it. Combining interactive voice response with intelligent virtual agents can make a measurable difference in the heavy load customer service agents are expected to carry.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 21, 2022

Self-service options like chatbots and virtual agents are increasingly preferred by customers, but they can’t – and shouldn’t! completely replace human contact center agents. Forward-thinking companies are using conversational AI to intelligently route customers to the right agent the first time.

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Calabrio

MARCH 31, 2025

In the process, the contact center AI market is expected to nearly triple in size between 2025 and 2030 as organizations expand investments, tools and capabilities multiply, and new challenges come and go. This is what led many, in the earliest days of ChatGPT, to liken the tool to autocomplete on steroids.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 11, 2018

In a recent article , Shelby Faris takes in in-depth look at Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology. She acknowledges that though IVR is a vital component of many companies’ customer service, it’s not without its faults. 4 Ways Companies Benefit from Using IVR Services. Need IVR services?

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2018

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2018 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. The 2018 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report is the only in-depth analysis of these emerging solutions.

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Dialer 360

JANUARY 19, 2022

Virtual agents. However, those days are gone when static and slow IVR are used in the call center for customer service. Relationship between virtual agents and Artificial intelligence. This approach focuses on problem-solving and permits the virtual agents that they make customer interaction and responses improve.

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SmartAction

APRIL 11, 2024

Use a natural, empathetic voice. No one wants to listen to an unfriendly, unhelpful, and inhuman voice. Your IVR voice should be warm and friendly, evoking the feeling that the caller can see a smile on the speaker’s face. If all of your customers are senior citizens, use a more mature voice. It’s a valuable tool.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? With their narrow conversation flows and questions that often don’t lead to an answer – or an agent – chatbots don’t always seem all that revolutionary. You wouldn’t be the first customer service professional to ask themselves if a chatbot is really any different than an IVR.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline. Multimodal Virtual Agents allow customers to tap, text and talk to get more done , with little effort. How to build a smarter IVR with a multimodal user expereience. View Webinar.

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TechSee

APRIL 21, 2021

AI-Based Collaboration Tools. With many call centers adopting the remote working model, the common practice of one agent asking a question over his cubicle wall has come to an end. AI enhances existing self-service capabilities, such as smart FAQ and IVR, with the new cognitive capabilities in chatbots or virtual agents.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The healthcare landscape underwent a profound transformation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, reshaping the traditional roles of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems and contact centers. Traditional IVR systems, long seen as transactional tools, assumed a more pivotal role in patient interactions.

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Call Design

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Genesis of Automation and IVR. Attempts to automate phone-based customer interactions have been around for decades. First-generation IVR (interactive voice response) systems were one of the first systems to automatically interact with a customer through voice recognition and/or keypad inputs.

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JustCall

MARCH 23, 2023

Interactive Voice Response, or IVR, is necessary for every contact center. It serves as a round-the-clock virtual receptionist. The IVR is configured to lead the user to a self-help guide that answers their query, a human agent who can solve their problem, or a pre-recorded voice message.

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Xaqt

JUNE 1, 2020

All the while, Virtual Agents and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) threaten to eliminate much of the human capabilities that outsources have built their business on. Amazon, Google, Microsoft) and well-funded start-ups are selling the value proposition of bots, virtual agents and AI to their enterprise customers.

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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. AI customer service tools streamline repetitive and/or time-consuming tasks and workflows so your agents can focus on what they’re best at: helping people.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 28, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) in the contact center. From IVR to chatbot and other self-service automation, none exhibit the cognitive capabilities of today’s purpose-driven, practical AI solutions for the contact center.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Empowering your contact center business with automated solutions can take your customer interactions to new heights of success. To that end, this blog will explore contact center automation and discuss its pros, tools, use cases, and challenges. Here are some advanced contact center automation tools used today: 1.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

In the past, contact centers could stay ahead of the curve as long as they ensured to utilize the right solutions and tools to service customers. These include customer service analytics, engagement hubs, the voice of the customer , virtual agents (live chat), and chatbots.

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The Northridge Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

If that interaction does require routing to a live agent for further processing, the system should transfer all of that relevant information and guide the agent to create a seamless, personalized, and genuine interaction that enables a more efficient, and higher-valued experience. Where can AI help?

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Frost & Sullivan awards Purchasing Power ® for their AI-Powered Virtual Agent created in partnership with SmartAction ® to enable conversational self-service for their customers. SmartAction uses proprietary conversational AI to automate conversations that used to be handled by call center agents over phone, chat, and text.

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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. AI customer service tools streamline repetitive and/or time-consuming tasks and workflows so your agents can focus on what they’re best at: helping people.

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REVE Chat Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

What tools & technologies will empower businesses to gain an edge over the competition? Help the sales agents identify better opportunities for future sales. Guide your customers with live engagement tools . Live engagement tools are boon contact centers to handle such scenarios. 34% of U.S.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

AI applications will access the relevant pieces from a customer’s history – chat threads, previous orders, unresolved issues – and pull them up on the virtual agent desktop so everything is in one place. Virtual Agent. This is another form of automation.

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SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2021

When they do, chances are more likely than not they’ll be speaking to an AI-powered virtual agent. Your AI-powered virtual agent has the potential to be more. Web chat is a Tool for your Contact Center. The bare bones of web chat are essentially the traditional interactive voice response of customer service online.

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OctopusTech

JUNE 18, 2024

Reduce Average Handle Time It is a good thing to provide your agents with knowledge management tools. You can use it to improve protocols, scripts, and agent skills through recorded calls. Automate With Visual IVRs Visual interactive voice response systems use touchtone prompts or speech recognition.

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