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IVR and Call Center in India

by Uttam Pegu on June 10, 2010

Recently, I came across a news of phasing out of government managed call center in Indian city, Jaipur, aimed at providing single-window facilities for civic issues like sanitation, water supply and road repair etc. The reason for phasing out of the call center is due to less number of calls and huge burden of cost [...]

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IVR as Voice Based Value Added Service

by Uttam Pegu on August 4, 2009

Voice based value added service is known as voice portal. This is good revenue source for both mobile and land line telecom companies. Just like SMS Portal, voice portal also provides similar services but accessed through IVR. With advent of voice enabled menu using speech recognition technique, IVR has become very popular as well as [...]

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CRBT for Advertisement

by Uttam Pegu on July 22, 2009

CRBT (Caller Ring Back Tone) is a very popular IVR application used in Telecom Industry. It is known as “Hello Tunes”, “Caller Tunes” in India. CRBT is a fairly simple IVR system which has a smart call routing and a IVR application which plays one audio file, a music as per choice by the CRBT [...]

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Synway opens office in India

by Uttam Pegu on March 25, 2009

Synway Information Engineering Co., Ltd. has opened its office in New Delhi, India on March 11, 2009. As per Mr. Luke Lu from Synway, all technical support to its clients would be now available locally. In recent times, Synway has been quite aggressive in pushing its products in India. Their products are very competitively priced [...]

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Disclaimer of ivrsworld.com

by Uttam Pegu on March 12, 2009

Disclaimer Here are few disclaimer of the blog:- I will write about my experiences, information acquired during my working with various CTI hardware, like Dialogic, Synway, TelcoBridge, AudioCodes etc. as well as various IVR Application Development Tools like VB Voice, ExtendIVR and others. I may also write about Call Center, Contact Center, Telecom Switches, Telecom [...]

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Toll Free Number and IVRS has very close relationship.  Big companies, apart from Teleocm companies, which have large customer base, normally have a toll free number as call center. In US, normally Toll Free number starts with 800, in India, it starts with 1800. Recently I got an inquiry from a company in India, about [...]

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What is IVR System ?

by Uttam Pegu on August 23, 2008

So you have made call to some one and you get too hear some other voice (pleasant, sweet and female! Or a stony, emotionless, monologue by your ‘someone’, “I am not here, please leave your message after the beep. Thank you.”) asking you to leave a message! Surprised to hear such a pleasant voice? (Are you stumped and look for piece of paper and a pen and then go crazy how the hell you are going to leave your message after the BEEP?) What were you expecting your lovers trademark Hello? Well that was a kind of IVRS – Interactive Voice Response System.

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