UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 9, 2018

Password resets, changed addresses, parts ordering, status updates, appointment setting, and more are straightforward calls that can easily be addressed by virtual agents or chatbots. At Blue Ocean, we are no stranger to the challenges this presents.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Use AI-based virtual assistants – Millennials are very open to communication with virtual entities – chatbots – including voice-based assistants and visual virtual technician. According to a Retale poll, 86% of Millennials said that brands should use chatbots to promote products and services.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

The denouement of Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for AI shows how AI-powered contact center technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), chatbots, and machine learning (ML) have recently begun to lose their magnetism, ending up in the Trough of Disillusionment.

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Inbenta

OCTOBER 23, 2017

When it comes to chatbots, businesses want to know one thing. The million dollar question for a market which will be worth billions within a few years is – can my virtual agent answer my customers’ questions? In the context of chatbots, a decision tree essentially helps them find the exact answer to your question.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues. A coffee machine manufacturer may present images of six different models on their Contact Us page.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

In this post, we are focusing on the chat channel to show how to use Amazon Lex and the Amazon Lex Web UI to enable live agents to interact with your customers in real time. For example, the following figure shows screenshots of a chatbot transitioning a customer to a live agent chat (courtesy of WaFd Bank).

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In the second part of this series, we describe how to use the Amazon Lex chatbot UI with Talkdesk CX Cloud to allow customers to transition from a chatbot conversation to a live agent within the same chat window. This gives us the best of both worlds, enabling WaFd to serve its clients in the best way possible.”

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Inbenta

APRIL 14, 2020

To achieve this, you need to be present everywhere, at all times and with a constant quality of response. 4 chatbot use cases within the customer journey. A chatbot as an intelligence tool. What better way to do this than with an AI chatbot? A chatbot as a sales consultant. A proactive chatbot.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

For some time now, Chatbots have become famous in contact centers. It is an artificial intelligence tool that can be described as a virtual agent. As a result, a Chatbot is presented as a real solution for improving customer experience in a call center. How does a Chatbot Revolutionize Customer Experience?

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

It enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided and improves the working conditions for agents and satisfaction for customers. For every second that chatbots can shave off average call center handling times, call centers can save as much as $1 million in annual customer service costs.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

It enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided and improves the working conditions for agents and satisfaction for customers. For every second that chatbots can shave off average call center handling times, call centers can save as much as $1 million in annual customer service costs.

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AWS Machine Learning

JULY 18, 2023

Amazon Lex is a service that allows you to quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems for applications such as Amazon Connect. In this solution, we showcase the practical application of an Amazon Lex chatbot with LLM-based RAG enhancement.

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North Highland

MAY 24, 2019

You need information to support automation and to build both types of AI machines: 1) machine learning algorithms and 2) virtual agents. Building virtual agents that work with humans, like chatbots, requires content (i.e., Data is raw facts presented without context. Attribute One: Described Metadata.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This year’s MWC promises to be a huge event, with 2,300+ exhibitors presenting the latest and greatest in mobile technology to 108,000+ attendees from 208 countries. That’s quite a lot of new ideas, apps, presentations and giveaways to sift through. Virtual Customer Assistants. Virtual agent exhibitors at MWC 2018: Nuance.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This year’s MWC promises to be a huge event, with 2,300+ exhibitors presenting the latest and greatest in mobile technology to 108,000+ attendees from 208 countries. That’s quite a lot of new ideas, apps, presentations and giveaways to sift through. Virtual Customer Assistants. Virtual agent exhibitors at MWC 2018: Nuance.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Research reveals that 61% of consumers think IVRs provide a poor customer experience because they force them to listen to irrelevant options (63%), stop them from getting through to a live person (54%), present long menus (46%), and force them to repeat themselves (45%). The move toward conversational platforms. Adding vision to the mix.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 23, 2020

The scalability and flexibility of a cloud contact center presents itself as the best solution, allowing companies to better align investment according to their growth. All of these contextual insights are made available to the agent in real-time, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of each customer interaction.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

Automated chatbots handle simple queries, while AI assists human agents in resolving complex issues on the spot. Chatbots: redefining CX Imagine a world where people can have their problems addressed instantaneously, without navigating cumbersome menus or waiting for a human to deal with an issue.

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Innovative CX

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In a previous blog post I mentioned that I was presenting to a group of 200 service executives and asked a simple question – how many had checked their IVR in the last 24 hours? So, I started a chat – or should I say a chat with a bot (or virtual agent) which didn’t recognize my issue. Last month?

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Bold360

AUGUST 24, 2017

Insights are gathered on each and every interaction, even if they aren’t being presented as a complaint or a concern. Virtual Agents. A powerful and effective tool to manage these problems comes from virtual assistants and chatbots. Your support agents have been given a promotion.

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Verint

MAY 1, 2018

From Here to ‘Her’: Evolving Chatbot Interactions to Meet the Relational Needs of Humans”. Ian Beaver and Cynthia Freeman, product experts from Next IT-Verint, will present “From Here to ‘Her’: Evolving Chatbot Interactions to Meet the Relational Needs of Humans” at 4:50 p.m. Artificial Intelligence Conference. ET on May 2.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While every enterprise strives to optimize contact center experiences, internal strategies, operations and processes often present major challenges. By optimizing self-service options you can reduce contact center costs by minimizing human-assisted interactions and allowing agents to focus on more complex inquiries.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Chatbots to the rescue. It is no surprise that the usage of chatbots in customer service is taking a notch up. In the coming future, chatbots will be able to communicate across different channels and morph into intelligent virtual agents (IVA). Without any further ado, let us get started with the list.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 17, 2023

This technology has come a long way since the early days of chatbots, and today’s AI-powered conversational interfaces can understand and respond to human language in a way that is almost indistinguishable from a human. Rule-based chatbot: Rule-based systems use pre-programmed responses to specific inputs and are not very sophisticated.

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