by Uttam Pegu on July 9, 2010
I attended VAS Asia 2010 held today in New Delhi. While writing my previous post about widely used IVR systems in India, I put IVR for Value Added Service at the top. If the overwhelming presence of CTI board manufacturers with stalls and two IVR platform provider any indication, then we are surely seeing some [...]
by Uttam Pegu on June 3, 2010
While outbound IVR systems are being widely used now a days for many promotional activities, but outbound IVR potential as smart predictive dialer is still to be tapped. While many acknowledge that, outbound IVR has many advantages over predictive dialer, call centers still deploy predictive dialer for making outbound calls and then transferring the calls [...]
by Uttam Pegu on May 20, 2010
CCXML (Call Control eXtensible Markup Language) is telephone call flow language in line with VoiceXML which provides telephony control to the voice application written in VoiceXML. CCXML is completely separate from VoiceXML and work independently from VoiceXML, though they can work together. CCXML can be thought as an interface between telephony API and voice user [...]
by Uttam Pegu on March 15, 2010
Dialogic D/300 JCT-E1 is the entry level board for anyone who needs digital network interface with PSTN network as well as voice resources in the single board. I feel, D/300 board is most used entry level CTI board for many high end, feature rich IVR applications like unified messaging system, Fax Server, Caller Ringback Tone, [...]
by Uttam Pegu on February 8, 2010
IVR (Interactive Voice Response) System is solution that perform specific tasks related to presenting, sharing gathering information of a company with its customers or any one over phone. With fast development of internet, IVR systems too have moved from on-premise system to hosted service. How it evolved Like any other computer software, IVR has evolved [...]
by Uttam Pegu on January 4, 2010
What is VXML ? VXML, also known as Voice XML is W3C(World Wide Consortium) standard for specifying voice interaction between human and a computer. So, it essentially is a ‘tool’ or high level level language for scripting an IVR ( Interactive Voice response) application. It can take input from human in the from of DTMF [...]
by Uttam Pegu on November 2, 2009
Implementing traditional voice mail using analog CTI boards is quite tricky. If the switch of EPABX does not support certain features, than it is almost impossible to implement traditional voice mail system with traditional operation. The major issue is finding out information of caller ID. In a traditional voice mail system as I explained in [...]
by Uttam Pegu on October 12, 2009
Most probably, the most dreaded and time consuming part of deployment of IVR system is the integration of CTI board with the telecom switch or EPABX. And if EPABX or switch is of lower end or from smaller EPABX manufacturer ( there are few in India), it may become really a nightmare for IVRS integrator [...]