February 2012

Speech Recognition has few takers in Contact Centres!

by Uttam Pegu on February 29, 2012

Recent survey conducted by Contact Centre Helper The UK’s most popular contact centre Magazine, has found that only 10% contact centres use speech recognition in their IVR ( Interactive Voice Response) System! This is something I have always maintained that DTMF IVR has advantages over speech recognition. Though, contact centre Helper is a UK based [...]

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About IVR, Telephony Systems and Cloud Telephony

by Uttam Pegu on February 25, 2012

Now a days, Telephony Systems, Cloud Telephony, Cloud IVR seem to be used interchangeably and mean almost same. Also, according to trend, whole telephony systems seem to be emerging as a “Cloud Telephony” which encompasses everything that exchanges information in voice between two places. I was wondering, why people have started using the term “Cloud [...]

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Using IVR has increased efficiency: IVR Case Study

by Uttam Pegu on February 18, 2012

The other day I had a discussion with Ankit Bhargava, a destination wedding planner and a online travel consultant about his experience with using Hosted IVR Solutions. He had started using Hosted IVR Solution for his business around six months ago after I advised and explained him about few benefits of using IVR in his [...]

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In the crowded IVR Tools market and competing technologies for making IVR development easier and faster, I thought it would be an worthwhile to know how many people use what kind of IVR development tools for their IVR Software. So, I though I would start a poll in this IVR Blog to find out how [...]

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When to choose Open Source IVR ?

by Uttam Pegu on February 6, 2012

Anything that says “Open Source” is thought to be freely available, customizable and really exciting for many software users. (Specially people from India who are very price competitive, but I am sure Open source software sounds tempting to people all over the world!) Open Source alternative for any popular application software has almost become a [...]

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Pronexus VBVoice is now rated Avaya Compliant!

by Uttam Pegu on February 2, 2012

The award winning , powerful IVR Toolkit Pronexus VBVoice is now rated as Avaya Compliant, as per recent press release by the Ontario based company, Pronexus. “Utilities OnCall, a VBVoice IVR application built by Vocantas, was successfully compliance tested with Avaya Aura® Communication Manager 6.0.1 and Avaya Aura® Session Manager 6.1 by Avaya’s DevConnect Technical [...]

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