by Uttam Pegu on November 9, 2009
What is speech recognition or automatic speech recognition ? Automatic speech recognition can be defined as a process by which spoken words are converted to text. Many people may confuse with voice recognition as speech recognition. Voice recognition is recognising the speaker of the voice, while automatic speech recognition recognise the words spoken. While speech [...]
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 27, 2009
What is IVR customisation ? Normally, an IVR application is designed and developed as per requirement of the customer by IVR companies. But they have ready-made modules tested and readily available for quick development. Normally, the modules like, telephone interface, ring detection, caller ID detection, database connectivity etc. are always readily available. Also many people [...]
by Uttam Pegu on September 21, 2009
What is IVR Outsourcing ? A company may outsource IVR operation to IVR supplier or Hosted IVR Service providers. IVR Outsourcing means rent a IVR number where a company’s customer or caller may call and obtain company’s information, resources, avail service, complaints etc. The outsourcing company does not need to invest anything on IVR infrastructure [...]
by Uttam Pegu on September 5, 2009
Almost one year back on 28th August 2008, I started a poll in this site to try to know how many people use Dialogic CTI boards as well as other CTI boards. I have concluded the poll today, 5th September 2009. The question of the poll was : Which CTI card you use for your [...]
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 [...]
by Uttam Pegu on July 27, 2009
What is TTS ( Text to Speech) ? TTS or Text To Speech is a process where text is converted to WAV file and played back. So it is a system or often called “engine” that converts text to voice. If some one types a sentence in a note pad, a TTS software would convert [...]
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 [...]