What do your computer and car have in common with your interactive voice response (IVR)? They can be tuned for optimal performance. Speech recognition’s bad reputation is largely due to bad tuning. Over the weekend my brother-in-law gave me his old desktop. I knew nothing about it. I’ve built my own computers before, so the […]
PRESS RELEASESmartAction to Sponsor Consero’s 2015 Customer Experience ForumForum brings executives and thought-leaders together to dialogue and network about customer EL SEGUNDO, CA (February 1, 2015) – SmartAction, the leading provider of artificial intelligence voice self-service systems, today announced that it will sponsor Consero’s 2015 Customer Experience Forum taking place on March 15-17, 2015, at […]
Sometimes, when we at SmartAction explain our artificial intelligent IVR system to people, we get a reaction similar to that of Gumbel and Couric in the video. And that’s okay – artificial intelligence, like any new technology, can be complicated and hard to understand. It’s clear that this new car operates using some pretty cool new […]
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, here’s what you need to know (especially if you’re a motorist): the winter is bitterly cold. As the VP of Automotive Services for CAA Saskatchewan, I ‘m always looking for the best way to provide all of my members an efficient and user-friendly process […]
Thank you, Siri. Your pleasant-sounding voice has completely changed my attitude about Text-to-Speech (TTS) software. Until you came along, I was never much of a fan. Interacting with TTS (and the IVR applications that made use of it) used to be an experience that was too often unpleasant, inefficient, and incredibly frustrating. Between the robotic-sounding voices and the […]
Working in customer service is one of those jobs in which many skills are learned by experience. No two customers will have the same style of communication when it comes to clarity, tone and personality, so it’s important to have the ability to communicate efficiently with many different types of people. Last summer, I worked […]
Today, self-service is generally agreed upon as the primary trend and focus for customer service. Omni-channel is only the buzz of the day because new channels are emerging causing companies to feel that they are falling behind. However, a channel is merely an avenue for customers to receive service and regardless of the number of […]
This year marked the debut of the Intelligent Assistants Conference, an industry-first conference in September held in San Francisco. The topic was new and the timing was right. Hosted by Opus Research and Dan Miller, the event was well attended by nearly 100 forward-thinking companies and technology providers. As someone who has attended countless conferences over the years, […]
If your IVR provider accepts and processes credit card information, then it must be PCI compliant to ensure your systems are secure, and customers can trust you with their sensitive payment information. But what exactly does compliance entail? And how do you ensure that your IVR provider is in fact PCI Compliant? Read through the […]
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