ivr in India

Hosted IVR is gaining popularity in India

by Uttam Pegu on November 30, 2011

Recently I have traveled North and Eastern part India and met many people who are either using IVR systems or are dealing with call centres. While interacting with them, one thing I realised that, people are now warming up to the concept of hosted IVR in India. Most interesting part is, even bigger companies are [...]

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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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Few widely used IVR system in India

by Uttam Pegu on July 6, 2010

The usage of IVR is growing in India. IVR has been used for long time in India like any other country in the world. These IVR systems were majorly used as train status information, flight status information and other few complaint lodging/booking system. And at that time ( before 1997), India had very low telecom [...]

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