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Interactive Voice systems provide automated response service capabilities by enabling customers to use the keys on a touch-tone phone to access information, such as bank account balances, flight arrival and departure times, and package delivery status.

This capability is provided by using a pre-recorded human voice stored on a computer hard drive, or by using text-to-speech technologies. These pre-recorded options are accessed via customizable touch-tone dialing (DTMF) phone menus.

Some systems offer a self-service solution that includes an unlimited number of phone menu options such as playing a message, routing an interaction to a queue, sending a fax, opening a sub-menu, and other features.

Advanced features include data connectivity to multiple ODBC data sources, wireless access, automated speech recognition (ASR), in-depth reporting, Voice Recognition XML and SALT support, and support of multi-channel communications, such as input by Web or fax.

Systems can vary in scalability, from several ports for a single location, to thousands of ports suitable for multiple centers or even carrier networks.

Industry analysts report that  interactive applications can significantly reduce the cost of supporting customer interactions if advanced speech software is used to more flexibly support complex interactions, such as helping callers self complete applications, scheduling service requests, providing technical support, and handling financial transactions. Some studies show that a company migrating from touch-tone to ASR experiences up to a 15 to 20 percent gain in un-assisted call completions. Below is a list of vendors who can implement an integrated self-service system with IVR for your business.

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Aspect

Aspect is a global software and IT services firm specializing in applying Microsoft® unified communications and collaboration to help customers achieve optimal results through enhanced business processes across the enterprise and in the contact center.  Aspect provides IT consulting, integration services and business applications. For more information, visit www.aspect.com.

Avaya
Avaya is the global leader in contact center solutions and in enterprise communications systems. The company provides unified communications, contact centers, and related services directly and through its channel partners to leading businesses and organizations around the world. Enterprises of all sizes depend on Avaya for state-of-the-art communications that improve efficiency, collaboration, customer service and competitiveness.
BBN Technologies

AVOKE Caller Experience Analytics from BBN Technologies is the first and only solution that profiles complete end-to-end telephone interactions from the caller’s perspective.  Without installing any new hardware or software, the AVOKE Call Browser system captures the caller's entire experience from dialing to hang-up - including all announcements, prompts, IVRs, queues and agents - across all sites, continents and outsource partners.  Companies use the AVOKE Call Browser system to deliver real-time caller experience dashboards, and to supply process improvement teams with complete and objective customer data.  BBN also provides professional services to quickly analyze a large volume of calls and deliver specific and quantified improvement roadmaps. 

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc. industry-leading customer contact solutions provide businesses with differentiated competitive advantage enabled by superior customer support capabilities. Cisco’s customer contact portfolio includes both TDM- and IP-based speech self-service and assisted-support software solutions for large and mid-sized customer contact centers – all designed to improve support, reduce costs, and increase productivity.

Genesys

Genesys, an Alcatel-Lucent company, is the world’s leading provider of contact center and customer service applications — with more than 4,000 customers in 80 countries.  Genesys technology directs more than 100 million interactions every day, dynamically connecting customers with the right resources — self-service or assisted-service — to fulfill customer requests, optimize customer care goals and efficiently use agent resources. Genesys helps organizations drive contact center efficiency, stop customer frustration and accelerate business innovation. For more information: visit us on the Web: www.genesyslab.com 

 

inContact
The inContact platform includes ACD software with skills-based routing, IVR with speech recognition, CTI capabilities, reporting, work force optimization, eLearning, call center agent hiring and customer feedback measurement tools. Taken together, the inContact call center software platform creates an integrated, all-in-one solution for operations seeking to support call centers, including those with a distributed workforce – either at-home or multi-site.
LiveOps
LiveOps provides the leading on-demand call center platform that frees businesses from the complexity and constraints of traditional call center models. Used by Fortune 500 and major brand marketing companies, the LiveOps on-demand call center platform delivers enterprise-grade availability and reliability with the security infrastructure required in today’s mission-critical business environments. The company also runs the world’s largest virtual call center, which includes a network of more than 20,000 independent home agents who provide unmatched customer service. The best practices of operating a state- of- the- art virtual call center, coupled with the LiveOps on-demand call center platform, enable LiveOps to deliver breakthrough call center results to its customers.
Microsoft Tellme
Microsoft Tellme lets people say what they want and get it. Speech technology from Microsoft Tellme makes life and work more efficient, more natural, and even more enjoyable. By combining Internet data with a powerful speech interface, the Microsoft Tellme IVR Service improves task completion and customer service performance for businesses across 2 billion+ calls every year.
Verint® Witness Actionable Solutions®
Verint® Witness Actionable Solutions® is the leader in enterprise workforce optimization software and services. Its solutions are designed to help organizations capture customer intelligence, uncover business trends, discover the root cause of employee and customer behavior, and optimize the customer experience across contact center, branch, and back-office operations.

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