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Choosing an IVR Solution: Not Easy Task

by Uttam Pegu on September 20, 2011

I keep getting direct questions which broadly translates into one single question, “What IVR tool/Software should I use for my IVR requirement ?” Over period of last three years, I can classify, three types of people ask me such questions, they are :- 1. Representatives of companies who is looking for IVR systems and they [...]

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Key Press through during prompt announcement in IVR

by Uttam Pegu on May 16, 2011

One of the most irritating aspect of IVR ( Interactive Voice Response) System is having to listen to the complete prompt before making a choice. While this is essential for first time dialer to the IVR system, it is really irritating and time consuming for regular callers who already know the options. So, many IVR [...]

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Will Click to Call service replace Predictive Dialer ?

by Uttam Pegu on May 2, 2011

What is predictive dialer and what is Click To Call ? Predictive dialer is such smart automatic telephone dialer system which dials out a telephone number from a list of telephone numbers in order to reduce holding time for both agent in call center as well as the person who is called from it. Though [...]

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How political parties can use inbound IVR

by Uttam Pegu on April 4, 2011

Presently, outbound IVR ( Interactive Voice response) System is widely used in India as well as around the world by candidates in any democratic election in order to reach their electorate in the form of bulk voice call or broadcasting voice messages. In India, many political parties deploy Bulk Voice service during election campaign asking [...]

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Step By step Instruction to install Dialogic SPCI4/SPCI2 boards

by Uttam Pegu on March 18, 2011

Many a times, I get request to help installing SPCI4/SPCI2 board installing in Windows 2003 Server. While installing mine, I prefer to ask Dialogic vendor to help remotely install and configure ( normally they provide free Remote Installation and Configuration, and they always do good job) the board, but many a times I also try [...]

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Top 3 reasons not to use ASR in IVR Systems in India

by Uttam Pegu on November 10, 2010

Most probably, the debate on merits and demerits of using ASR ( Automatic Speech Recognition) would continue for some time to come, but in case of India, there are three compelling reason avoid using ASR where simple, old, robust and universally understood ‘keypress’ can do. While ASR can surely speed up and increase interactivity of [...]

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Importance of script writing in IVR system

by Uttam Pegu on October 15, 2010

IVR system is not just a clubbing together of state of the art CTI boards, high end servers, very easy to drag and drop tool design IVR call flow for flexibility. One of the saddest part about IVR development is, the users may not appreciate about these technological break-through like SS7, ISUP, CPA ( Call [...]

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Few important finer details of IVR Software

by Uttam Pegu on July 30, 2010

There are few parameters or features of IVR which are important and are common to almost any type of IVR application. These parameters play very important role in making the voice application more user friendly. These parameters are used at many stages in IVR software or in any call flow. I hope, knowing these would [...]

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