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CRM July 2015 Leonard Klie |
Conversational Computing Strives to Meet the 'Star Trek' Standard Speech technology, combined with artificial intelligence, will enable people to interact with machines in a natural way |
CRM October 2012 Donna Fluss |
IVRs Get a Bad Rap There's no excuse for not investing in these systems. |
CRM November 2005 Coreen Bailor |
Avoiding the Speech Rec. Wreck Speech recognition has struggled to move into the mainstream, but these applications are picking up where touch tone IVR leaves off. |
CRM January 2015 Leonard Klie |
In Customer Service, It's More Efficient to Be Effective Rushing customers off the phone might cut costs, but ignores the potential for greater value. |
CRM December 2007 Coreen Bailor |
Speak Up! Designing a speech-enabled IVR system is inherently complex and requires in-depth preparation. Here are eleven strategies to ensure that you're hearing your customers loud and clear. |
CRM October 18, 2004 Coreen Bailor |
It's About People, After All Incorporating the human element into contact center automation. |
CRM February 2015 Leonard Klie |
The Hidden Sources of Poor Customer Service Interactions should be designed with the customer in mind. |
CRM May 1, 2006 Coreen Bailor |
Like a Circle in a Spiral Making your interactive voice response system as user friendly as possible will help increase customer loyalty and keep costs down. |
CIO July 1, 2003 John Edwards |
Smooth Talkers Speech integration technology gives customers and employees convenient access to back-end data. |
InternetNews February 18, 2011 Stuart J. Johnston |
IBM's Watson Goes from Jeopardy to Medicine After its supercomputer flattened two human challengers at Jeopardy, IBM announced a collaboration with a leading voice technology firm to teach the computer bedside manners. |
CRM April 2011 Leonard Klie |
IVR Personalization: Strike the Right Balance Too much familiarity can repel customers, so IVR designers must take pains to build the right systems. |
CRM September 13, 2011 Leonard Klie |
Nuance Builds Out Its Mobile Advantage Portfolio The new solutions are designed to steer customers to mobile smartphone apps for self-service. |
CRM February 1, 2007 Walter Rolandi |
Decrease IVR Hang-Ups Want a more effective interactive voice response system? Here are a few rules that can help prevent customer loss. |
CRM March 2013 |
CRM Service Awards: Service Elite Activision began to explore solutions that would give it the flexibility it needed to service its gamers in the channel of their choice. Last March, the company selected Salesforce.com Service Cloud and was able to roll out the product globally and across three of its contact centers within 90 days. |
CRM January 2008 Ryan Joe |
Listen Up! Just because your customers are calling in to an automated response line doesn't mean your script is automatically going to work. Designing a truly interactive conversation is anything but simple. |
CRM July 1, 2006 Coreen Bailor |
Microsoft Talks Pretty One Day The software giant hopes to end the struggle with the development, management, and TCO of speech-enabled apps. |
InternetNews March 22, 2004 Erin Joyce |
IBM Chatting up VXML Toolkits IBM is rolling out upgraded software, tools and technologies aimed at easing speech applications into an enterprise's infrastructure. |
CIO July 15, 2005 Alice Dragoon |
CRM Wake-Up Call How to transform your call center from a budget drain into a source of competitive advantage. |
CRM May 2012 David Myron |
Going Against the Grain with Gamification and NLU To stand out from the crowd, companies don't always have to rely on technology. When it comes to marketing and advertising, the right message can set a company apart from its competitors as well. |
CRM May 2012 Leonard Klie |
In the Air Instead of on the Line A natural language-based IVR connects US Airways passengers to better service. |
InternetNews April 27, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Nuance Talks Up Security, Savings The speech technology specialist launches a new software package aimed at financial services and healthcare customers. |
CRM January 2012 Leonard Klie |
Can Mobile and IVR Avoid a Fight? Customer interaction technologies should support one another, not compete. |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2011 Thomas Lee |
Lost in Translation: Ford Teams With Nuance Communications to Master Human Language Ford can't force people to adjust their speech to use its commands. Instead, Ford wants to figure out how to interpret natural human speech. |
CRM January 2004 David Myron |
(Automated) Talk Is Cheap Speech technology is saving companies big bucks. |
Bank Technology News July 2005 Shane Kite |
Communications: Automated Talking Gets More Complex Interactive voice messaging-the next step beyond traditional interactive voice response-gives banks a shot at more proactive customer relationship management. But are there options? |
InternetNews May 8, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Begins Testing Speech Server 2007 Microsoft today formally opened up a public beta test of the Microsoft Speech Server 2007, a significant upgrade to its voice recognition and telephony server with a host of new features and technologies. |
InternetNews March 25, 2004 Michael Singer |
The Redmond Giant Speaks Out Microsoft says its Speech Server 2004 platform is worth its weight in SALT and that speech recognition has hit mainstream. |
CRM June 6, 2011 Leonard Klie |
Nuance Launches Complete Care Multichannel Solutions Nuance Complete Care engages consumers over the customer contact life cycle with integrated inbound and outbound customer care. |
PC Magazine October 28, 2003 Alan Cohen |
Money Talk T. Rowe Price is putting its stock in voice recognition technology. |
CRM December 2010 Donna Fluss |
Speaking of Solid Payback Optimizing your interactive voice response system may require only a small investment |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2011 Anders Bylund |
Exactly How Is Siri Helping This Mobile Technology Expert? Apple's latest and greatest innovation is lifting Nuance, whether or not Siri actually uses its technologies. |
Bank Technology News April 2002 David Rountree |
Phone Glitches Drive Consumers to Competition Banks, more than most companies, are likely to lose customers when service quality slips... |
CRM December 2010 |
Separating Fact From Fiction Addressing myths regarding upgrading non-vXML-based applications and improving IVR applications. |
The Motley Fool November 21, 2007 Jason Ramage |
Dueling Fools: Nuance Bear The bearish opinion of Nuance Communications is that simply having a great product, speech recognition software in this case, does not necessarily mean having a great company. |
CRM March 2015 Leonard Klie |
The 2015 CRM Service Leaders: Interactive Voice Response While interactive voice response systems were once only used by large companies that received massive amounts of calls, small businesses are now adopting the technology in large numbers as well. |
CRM October 1, 2009 Donna Fluss |
Voice Self-Service to the Rescue When live agents can't be had, interactive voice response systems may suffice. |
American Family Physician October 15, 2006 Iris R. Mabry |
Screening for Speech and Language Delay in Preschool Children Despite the lack of evidence to support screening with brief formal instruments, it is the responsibility of primary care physicians to seek and address parents' concerns and children's obvious speech and language delays. |
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The Motley Fool November 21, 2007 Jason Ramage |
Dueling Fools: Nuance Bear Rebuttal The bears argue that Nuance Communications is on top, but only for now, as competition grows from many other sources. |
CRM January 1, 2008 David Myron |
'Your Call Automation Sucks' What one company learned after overhauling its interactive voice response system can provide useful lessons as you adopt Web 2.0, CRM 2.0, and social networking strategies. |
The Motley Fool May 16, 2007 Dave Mock |
Nuance Raises Its Voice With Nuance's dominance of speech applications across multiple industries, the acquisition of VoiceSignal should give it new tools to help further position the company to cash in on the booming trend of voice access and control. Investors, take note. |
Bank Technology News March 2010 John Adams |
IVRs Get On The Brandwagon Interactive voice response (IVR) systems are increasing in importance as a retention tool in the financial services industry. New systems can be linked to CRM systems, and can move callers and customer data between departments. |
The Motley Fool June 4, 2011 Gary Morgenthaler |
Dear Apple: Go Big With Siri and Nuance in iOS 5 Focusing on speech recognition and artificial intelligence could be a game-changer. |
CRM June 30, 2015 |
IVR Technology Group and Jacada Partner Jacada will offer Visual IVR technology to IVR Technology Group's customers. |
The Motley Fool December 1, 2011 Keki Fatakia |
Nuance Rides the Apple Wave Nuance Communications posts higher revenues, incurs losses. |