Nuance is the company behind Siri and speech-recognition technology in any number of applications in the marketplace. If you’ve spoken with a digital assistant or automated voice system lately, chances are you’ve interacted with Nuance technology. As well as Apple, the company counts Samsung among its customers, along with a large crop of service providers. …
Recently, a company of which I’m a customer revamped their call center technology, but instead of leveraging new features to create a better caller experience, they made it worse. All of a sudden, their system doesn’t remember my personal data and call history like it used to, and, therefore, doesn’t predict why I’m calling anymore. …
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The consequences of a buggy automated call center are all to familiar: frustrated customers and system engineers spending too much time squashing bugs and getting the system to work correctly. If the system doesn’t function well then it’s not much good to customers in the first place. In an odd twist of irony, newer systems …
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It can take months to find and purchase a business technology. We spend hours and hours comparing technologies and vendors. And although price often trumps many of our concerns, that doesn’t diminish their importance. Here are three key things to keep in the forefront of our minds when choosing a technology vendor: 1 Industry Expertise …
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How do you make technology easier to use for older adults who struggle with diminishing cognitive ability? One way is through high set-level compatibility. Set-level compatibility refers to the relationship between stimulus and response set and the relationship’s influence on response time. The more commonality shared between a stimulus and response set, the faster the …
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Fraud is a Real Threat Fraud directly impacts a company’s finances and branding, not to mention customer loyalty. Yet fraud protection measures often increase operational costs and inconvenience customers. Most organizations dedicate significant resources to prevent fraud online, but this leaves few resources for call center security. A contributing factor to this is that companies …
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Not everyone is ready for technology at every turn, although even the non-technical among us have adapted to the technology in our daily lives. Many have embraced it. But technology should also adapt to us. Maybe even embrace us. Enable the Customer Business technology is a fact of life—every day, there’s more and more technology …
Taiwanese researchers have developed an automated technology that can gauge customer satisfaction over the phone. And it can do it better than humans. Shuchih Ernest Chang and Yu-Teng Jang of the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan used recorded customer voice files to “construct an artificial neural network-based” technology that matches tone of voice to …
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In the not-too-distant future, virtually everyone will be technologically literate. As always, we’ll teach our kids the Three Rs (reading, writing, arithmetic), but we’ll also add The C (coding). However, we’re not there yet. My mom, for one, is (amusingly) illiterate when it comes to technology—she likes to go ‘into’ the internet, for example. She …
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Interactions between people and between people and business entities are becoming increasingly technology-based. As people turn to text messages, social media, and automated voice applications it’s critical to remember that those are just tools that enable conversation. No matter what communication medium you use, when customers feel like you’re focused on them as individuals they’re …
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