Lost in the hoopla surrounding the uptake of DALL-E 3 is the open sourcing of another OpenAI product, Whisper, a general-purpose speech recognition model trained on a large dataset of diverse audio.
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Amazon Connect Will Disrupt Cloud-based Contact Centers and Interactive Voice Response
Running atop Amazon’s AWS cloud-based computing platform, a company can set up a contact center with just a few clicks and then pay by-the-minute for actual usage.
Opus Enterprise Series: “Best Practices for Voice Biometrics in the Enterprise”
In this second part of the Enterprise Series, Opus Research examines best practices for using voice biometrics for simple secure authentication in the enterprise across mobile, IVR, and contact centers.
“One Year Free” Offer by Genesys Addresses Switching Costs for CCaaS
In a provocative marketing move, Genesys has launched a “Get Your First Year Free” offer for companies looking to retire their premises-based contact centers and IVRs.
“Augmented IVR: Second Life for Interactive Voice Response”
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology is entering a new world of choice and customer empowerment, augmenting resources that bring both visual and voice resources into each customer’s critical path.
Research Report: How “Friction-Free” Care Can Bolster the Bottom Line
Centers, especially IVRs, are too often seen as friction points interfering with direct contact with live agents. In this document we describe how well-designed IVR applications coupled with ongoing, formal programs for Continuous Improvement (CI) improve customer satisfaction and ensure positive business outcomes.
Update: Twilio’s Deal with Ma Bell – Creative Disruption in Action
You know that Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” has begun in earnest when a prototypical disruptor, like Twilio, transforms one of the largest mobile carriers, AT&T Mobility, into a reseller of its services.
Webcast: The “Friction-Free” Self-Service Challenge
Join Dan Miller, Sr. Analyst at Opus Research, and Justin Lemrow, Director of Continuous Improvement at Contact Solutions, as they discuss how to strike the right balance between automated self-service and human assisted care in order to achieve high-levels of customer satisfaction at relatively low-levels of expense.
Conversational Commerce Paper: IVRs Take On New Tasks
People will go to great lengths to avoid interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Yet progressive, customer-pleasing companies like Hyatt Hotels are putting conversational IVR systems into place to the benefit of both their guests and their contact center agents. Therefore, in an age when some have said “The IVR is Dead,” we see “Conversational IVR” playing the role of Virtual Assistant in the enterprise, fostering a better customer experience and higher morale among customer service representatives.
VC Investment in Interactions Acknowledges that Investors Recognize a Problem
Interactions Corporation completed a financing round totaling $12 million, which is earmarked to support a “growing customer base, expand its marketing presence, and invest in new technology.”