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Top 5 things people hate about IVR

by Uttam Pegu on March 9, 2010

Everyone involved in IVR industry may have heard reasons why normal users, customers ‘hate’ using IVR ( Interactive Voice Response) Systems. There are many reasons why people hate using IVR and how IVR could be made more user-friendly with good VUI design practices. I thought I would update top five things about IVR that people [...]

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Smart usage of predictive dialer in call center

by Uttam Pegu on November 22, 2009

The biggest reason why people hate IVR is for the following scenario :- User calls to IVR number and he gets to hear an welcome message and asked few options. After that the user is put on hold saying ‘All our customer care officers are busy, Your call is important to us, we will transfer [...]

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Can Video IVR or IVVR be next big VAS for Telecom Operators ?

by Uttam Pegu on October 23, 2009

There has been lot of talk about video IVR or IVVR ( Interactive Voice and Video response System) recently. Dialogic also has announced recently of their availability of Beta DiaStar™ Server, Version 1.1, “Allowing developers to create video applications for fixed and mobile phones. this brings into variety of existing video features into open source [...]

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Growth of Outbound IVR Systems

by Uttam Pegu on October 21, 2009

Recently, there has been news about growth of outbound IVR systems everywhere in the world. I have also experienced people preferring outbound IVR over inbound IVR. Outbound IVR systems are being preferred in those kind of application where some customer authentication or verification like credit card authorisaton, phone banking, voice alerts are required or in [...]

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IVR Market to reach $514 million by 2013

by Uttam Pegu on July 18, 2009

I had posted a report few weeks back about IVR market growing to $2.7 billion by 2011 provided by DMG Consulting LLC, and today I had come across another press release while Googling, which says IVR market will grow to $514million from present estimate of $431million this year, as per T3i Group LLC, which “provides [...]

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Predictive Dialer and outbound IVR

by Uttam Pegu on July 4, 2009

Predictive dialer can be termed as smart auto-dialer.  Auto dialer dial out telephone number and handover or transfer the call to human agent in a call center.  Once the dialed number answers, the call agent or telemarketer starts speaking as per the outbound call center function. Now there can be many situations where the process [...]

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Smart IVR for Call Center – A Case Study

by Uttam Pegu on July 2, 2009

Recently, I commissioned a IVR Software in a call center in India. I have gone through a good learning process about not only Call Center, but also how IVR can be used smartly to serve customers better, solve customer problems at shortest possible time as well as minimizing call agent intervention! My client is a [...]

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List of RAD Tools for Developing IVR Software

by Uttam Pegu on June 27, 2009

I have been thinking to prepare a list of RAD(Rapid Application Development) tools for developing IVR software or voice applications for long time. I have found 8 RAD tools ( including one free tool) for developing IVR Application so far and I think there may be more as I am quite sure, many IVR RAD [...]

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