One of the big ideas behind VoiceTrends is that it’s not enough to simply know that your voice apps work. You need to know how well they’re working to truly understand their impact on your customers and the customer experience. If your app isn’t working as intended, you’d want to know, right? When your voice… Read More
Quantitative data makes the business world go ‘round and qualitative data provides the nuance and shading to help contextualize all those numbers. But qualitative data can be difficult to obtain and analyze. Using IVR to record and transcribe the customer responses is one way to get qualitative data. There are two different methods that we… Read More
It may seem like a minor detail but having audio that flows together well in your IVR applications can have a major impact on customer experiences. Getting good, smooth sounding audio has more to do with being a good sound engineer than it does with designing IVR apps. Why Flow Matters The most common issues… Read More
To understand the issues related to alpha-numeric input and IVR, try to remember sending text messages before smartphones. Each number has letters associated with it and you’d have to press the 8-key three times to get the letter V in your message. Compared to what we can do with smartphones, this method seems archaic, time-consuming,… Read More
The overwhelming majority of Plum customers use the telecom we provide as part of our service. After all, the whole idea behind offering managed telecom is to make voice technology easier for customers. By maintaining a system built on Tier 1 telecom provided by multiple carriers we’re also able to write 100% uptime guarantees into… Read More
Plum Voice has been at the vanguard of voice channel and IVR security for years. We pride ourselves on offering reliable cloud communications products that are compliant with some of the most desirable security standards in existence. These include PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and SOC2. As of May 2018, we can now add Visa Verified to that… Read More
Nowadays we take for granted how easy it is to make a phone call. We carry mini computers in our pockets that can contact any place in the world in real-time with a phone call or over the internet. Yet, with all that power we still end up with poor call quality all the time…. Read More
Juggling Multiple Call Centers When customers call your company, you can provide a wide range of information and services with the right IVR applications. Sometimes, however, customers have complex issues that automation can’t address. When this happens, you want to make sure that you transfer your customer to the best possible person to quickly resolve… Read More
Customers Don’t Like Hidden Fees A recent Gizmodo article highlighted the fact that some telecom companies charge customers high fees for paying their bills over the phone with a representative. Depending on the company, these fees ranged from $5 to $8 per transaction. With the large customer bases these companies have, those fees could result in… Read More
In a past post, we discussed the technological and the financial challenges that go hand-in-hand with developing natural language processing (NLP) applications. While these challenges remain relevant, more recent developments mean it’s easier and less expensive to incorporate natural language processing into your voice channels. Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), companies can manage NLP apps… Read More
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