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The New Modern Classroom: AI in Education
As we’ve discussed in the past, artificial intelligence and speech recognition are enabling technologies that help and assist humans. For Interactions, this means enabling enterprises to communicate better with their customers and improve the customer experience. AI is here to help and assist humans, not to replace us and our jobs.
The True Cost of DTMF
Press 1 for lower CSAT, 2 for lost revenue We have all been on the receiving end of this ancient customer service technology. “Press 1 for sales, 2 for billing, 3 for something else…”. Dual Tone Multi-Frequency Touchtone dialing (DTMF) presents a list of menu options to choose from and directs your call accordingly.
Artificial Intelligence: Assistant, not Overlord
Today’s tech buzzword, Artificial Intelligence (AI), can be a difficult concept for many people to wrap their heads around. AI technology, which arguably holds vast potential to revolutionize the way the world works, is nonetheless often used to paint an apocalyptic view of the future.
8 FAQs About Artificial Intelligence and Customer Service
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an important and evolving concept that is having significant impact within the Customer Experience industry — and it’s a topic that is being talked about on a seemingly daily basis at this point.
Now that Microsoft has achieved human speech parity – what’s next?
Since the early days at Bell Labs, when speech recognition was in its infancy, the goal has always been to transcribe what was spoken – perfectly. There is a long history of amazing technology milestones that have led us from having computers make sense of simple words, then phrases, then sentences.
Combining Artificial Intelligence with Human Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently one of the most talked about topics – spanning various industries, companies, and applications. More recently, though, the conversation has shifted to begin acknowledging the role of humans behind all of this automation, particularly when it comes to ensuring accuracy and top performance.
How Machine Learning Drives Better Enterprise Customer Care
When it comes to enterprise customer care, machine learning enables Virtual Assistant solutions to automate tasks that used to require a live agent: password resets; address and complex information collection; even sales support. Integrating machine learning into enterprise customer care opens doors to more flexible automated solutions.
What is Machine Learning – and Why is it Important?
Lately, it seems that every time you open your browser or casually scroll through a news feed, someone is writing about machine learning and its impact on both humans and the advancement of artificial intelligence.
How Machine Learning Adds Value to Customer Experience
Recently, Harvard Business Review published an article highlighting how many organizations are reengineering business processes with powerful machine learning algorithms.
Why (and How) the Speech Industry Needs to Change
Increasingly, we are living in a customer-obsessed business environment. In fact, some analysts have even gone so far as to call customer experience one of the top critical success factors determining which businesses will win and fail in 2016 and beyond.
Six Observations from SpeechTEK 2015
Recently, the team from Interactions attended SpeechTEK 2015, the annual conference focusing on speech recognition, natural language understanding, and customer interaction technology, which we always walk away from with tremendous insight and excitement over the future of our industry.
The Interface of Things: A Universal Remote for Your Life
When was the last time you tried to use the speech recognition feature on your phone or in your car? Maybe it was to ask your GPS program for directions, to place a call without taking your eyes off of the road or to check on traffic ahead. Did it work? If your experience is like mine, you probably had marginal success.
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