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The Definitive Guide: IVA vs IVR and What’s Right for Your Contact Center

SmartAction

Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Each option has a role in customer service depending on what parts of the customer experience businesses want to automate and which parts they want live agents to handle. Available 24/7. Available 24/7.

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What Is an AI-powered Virtual Agent and What Can It Do?

SmartAction

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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Conversational AI 101: NLU and IVR for Beginners

SmartAction

The ability of conversational AI technology to detect and understand speech are two of the biggest challenges faced by the Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). One way that IVA “levels up” from the typical IVR is that an IVA will utilize natural language understanding, or NLU. How Virtual Agents Help the Live Agent Workforce.

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Building an Intelligent IVR for More Predictive, Contextual, and Conversational CX

UJET

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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IVA is the New IVR Masterclass

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO & Phillip Fisher, CX Consultant at SmartAction

With the influx of calls replacing in-person interactions, it is up to our virtual agents to not only evolve to the new demands but also to help alleviate the current stressors on live agents. This webinar will cover: Key thresholds to determine the fit for conversational AI. Where to start? Buy or build?

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Multimodal User Experience Design Best Practices

Uniphore

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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Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR?

Fonolo

FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? 25, 2pm ET/11am PT for a live 30-min webinar. 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. If your chatbot seems like an IVR, are you doing something wrong?

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4 Ways AI-powered Virtual Agents Automate the Contact Center

Speaker: Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction

Register now to hear Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction, discuss how leading contact centers are leveraging the power of conversational AI through cloud-based virtual agents that automate the call types and chats traditionally handled by live agents. Examples from CX leaders on how and where they deployed virtual agents.