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Why professioal voice prompt should be used in any IVR system

by Uttam Pegu on January 8, 2011

I have many experiences with my clients or people whom I had interacted during their commissioning of IVR system, that they give least importance to the scripting as well as voice prompt. Most of the times, they discuss and emphasis on number of simultaneous calls, integration of the IVR with some CRM ( customer resource [...]

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Successful IVR System and Change in Call Flow

by Uttam Pegu on July 23, 2010

It may not be easy to define a successful IVR ( Interactive voice response) System. In single line, one IVR system could be termed successful when it has lowest abandon rate by both genuine new and old callers. When an IVR system is designed to perform some specific task for a caller, if the caller [...]

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IVR usability and Airtel (India) Call center

by Uttam Pegu on June 16, 2010

Recently, I came to know that Airtel ( Mobile Service provider in India with largest number of mobile subscribers, around 135 millions) charges caller to its mobile subscribers at the Rs. 0.5 per 3 minutes when they call their helpline number ( customer care) and speak to any human agent. The charge starts as soon [...]

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Voice User Interface (VUI) Design Tips

by Uttam Pegu on July 11, 2009

VUI ( Voice User Interface) is the call flow of IVR system. Usability of IVR is dependent on the VUI. So it is desirable that considerable amount of time be devoted in designing, testing and documenting VUI of IVR system before actually developing IVR system. Here are few simple VUI design guidelines of tips I [...]

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