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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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Speaker Recognition for caller authentication in IVR

by Uttam Pegu on March 5, 2010

What is Speaker Verification Speaker verification, also known as speaker recognition, can be defined as process of authenticating ones claimed identity by comparing their voice and previously recorded or computed speech characteristics (voiceprint, which is as unique as finger print ). While speech recognition is widely used in IVR, speaker verification or recognition is different [...]

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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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Integrating CTI board with Telecom switch or EPABX

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 [...]

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