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When it comes to making investments in customer service improvements, it’s hard to beat the transformational power of conversational AI to deliver a better customer experience in the contact center. In this blog post, we’ll dig into conversational AI – what does it mean for IVR and why businesses should care.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for years, but it's the recent advances that have created so much buzz. These advances show that AI is making machines smarter in very visible ways, ranging from "smart homes" to lifelike robots making the rounds of late-night TV shows.

What is new is the impact that rapid digital technology advances have had on younger age groups. "Digital native" Millennials and Generation Z have grown up in an ever-connected world of online shopping, social media, and all the world's information at their fingertips. Some don't know any other way.

Since the dawn of the contact center, there has never been a larger impact than the one we face with COVID-19. Many contact centers unprepared for a dramatic increase in customer contacts have scrambled to develop work from home plans and ramped up the use of self-service and automation.

One of the top ways to make life easier for customers is by improving (or implementing) your interactive voice response (IVR) system. IVR is an automated self-service voice menu that accelerates resolution and improves routing. It integrates with your automatic call distributor (ACD), leveraging natural speech to collect caller information and determine optimal handling.

Why is AI becoming a priority for contact centers around the globe? What does it look like to actually implement it in your organization? And what kind of impact can you expect? Explore why and how contact center leaders are utilizing AI today.

In this video, the next in our series on Transforming Customer Experiences, Vit Horky, Sr. Director, Digital Experience, talks about the fundamental changes taking place in the customer service market as the result of newly arriving technologies and changes in consumer behaviors.