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Use of Text to Speech (TTS) in IVR System

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 [...]

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Voice User Interface (VUI) Design Tips

by Uttam Pegu on July 11, 2009

VUI ( Voice User Interface) is the call flow of IVR system. Usability of IVR is dependent on the VUI. So it is desirable that considerable amount of time be devoted in designing, testing and documenting VUI of IVR system before actually developing IVR system. Here are few simple VUI design guidelines of tips I [...]

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Developing an Outbound IVR Application

by Uttam Pegu on March 23, 2009

There are few basic difference between outbound and inbound IVR Application. Normal IVR Application deals with inbound calls and call transferring. But an outbound IVR performs the few more tasks than an Inbound IVRS! And this is purely call handling point of View. Though inbound application may have to do more computation as it has [...]

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IVRS and Speech Recognition

by Uttam Pegu on March 14, 2009

Speech recognition in IVRS has become more of a necessity after mobile phones have arrived. POTS ( Plain Old Telephone ) System have telephone instrument with proper keypad along with head-set. Procedure of calling is suitable for pressing DTMF based interaction with IVR System! You normally lift the headset with left hand, dial pressing keys [...]

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