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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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Voice Mail System and Answering Machine

by Uttam Pegu on October 30, 2009

What is a Voice Mail System (VMS) and a Answering Machine ? Voice mail system can be thought as a message box for phone user to store voice messages and retrieve it through telephone. User can divert all his calls to his voice mail system when he wishes so. Main difference between answer machine and [...]

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Aculab offers boards and HMP software for IVR systems

by Uttam Pegu on April 8, 2009

Without doubt, interactive voice response (IVR) has become the ubiquitous technology in telecommunications applications. IVR solutions have a myriad of uses that are mostly taken for granted, however, the essence of an IVR system is its ability to offer ‘self-service’ for the user, thus it can help to reduce cost and improve the customer experience. [...]

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List of IVRS Companies

by Uttam Pegu on March 6, 2009

I have been thinking about building list of IVRS companies for long time now. There must be thousands of IVR Companies in the world! But if you type IVR Company or IVRS Companies, or IVRS Comapny in any search engines like Google, Yahoo. Live, check how many results they produce! Their listing of IVRS Companies [...]

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How to use IVR Software A Voice Portal

by Uttam Pegu on September 23, 2008

How IVR System is used as voice portal? Here is a simple guideline how to plan a IVR Software to use as voice portal and start earning revenue from the day one of launching the service. 1. Tie up with a Telephone Service Provider. Normal revenue sharing is heavily tilted in favour of telephone operator [...]

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CHOOSING RIGHT DEVELOPMENT TOOL TO DEVELOP YOUR FIRST IVRS

by Uttam Pegu on September 10, 2008

Developing an IVRS for fun and developing an IVR Application for enterprise use are quite different! There are many tools ( I listed a few in my previous post TOOLS FOR DEVELOPING IVRS ( CTI CARDS & SOFTWARE )), using which you might be able to develop an IVR Application in few minute. But the [...]

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THE BIG QUESTION? VOICE ENABLED MENU OR DTMF PRESSED MENU ?

by Uttam Pegu on August 30, 2008

The menus that IVRS can provide are either voice enabled or DTMF enabled. Now what does that mean? In a voice enabled IVRS, caller will have to choose his required menu option by speaking out a word or a phrase as if he is talking to a human! IVR is supposed to recognize his speech [...]

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WHY AND WHERE IVRS IS REQUIRED AND USED

by Uttam Pegu on August 24, 2008

IVRS can be directly compared with a website! So many people aptly say IVRS to be a Voice Portal. It does not compete with website, rather it complements the website. The way any organization has an website, it must have one IVRS too. Some of the important reasons to have IVRS are: 1. Providing information [...]

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