Conversational AI For Business Process Outsource Centres – Speaking South African!
- August 18, 2023
Conversational AI, particularly Digital Voice Agents (DVAs), is transforming the operations of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centres worldwide. These intelligent agents can speak the language of customers, providing exceptional caller experiences and revolutionizing customer service in various industries.
Insurance claims can be a stressful process, especially when you're dealing with the aftermath of a car accident. Contacting your insurance provider shouldn't add to the hassle. However, many businesses, including insurance companies, struggle to ensure quick and easy access to the right people. This is where chatbots or DVAs can make a difference.
Despite initial scepticism, using a DVA for insurance claims is ideal due to the structured nature of the process. DVAs can triage and perform initial identification and verification (ID&V) of customers before transferring the conversation to a human representative. While some may prefer speaking to real humans, there may be limitations in staff availability or their ability to answer accurately and confidently, especially during odd hours. Accidents don't just happen from 9 to 5.
Past experiences with poorly designed Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) systems and bots have fuelled scepticism. However, a well-designed and well-trained DVA can continuously learn and adapt, much like a human agent. DVAs can handle inquiries, answer questions, complete tasks, and deliver superior customer experiences. They enhance customer satisfaction, free up employees from mundane tasks, and reduce costs.
To achieve precise transcription, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engines play a crucial role. By customizing models for specific businesses, DVAs can understand callers with different accents or dialects and handle poor audio quality.
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) empowers DVAs to quickly identify callers' needs and provide accurate, empathetic responses. Trained on customer-specific data, these agents deliver a natural conversational experience with contextual understanding, memory, recall, and logical task handling.
Convenience is a significant advantage of DVAs. They offer 24/7 availability, minimal hold times, and streamlined query resolution, ensuring quick and effective responses to callers' inquiries. DVAs provide a transparent and auditable conversation path in real time, enabling accurate query resolution.
Furthermore, DVAs can seamlessly transfer queries to human operators when required or requested. They can transfer the call with the full conversation history and context, preventing caller frustration. DVAs require training specific to each business use-case and the varying dialects of callers to achieve unprecedented levels of transcription accuracy, language understanding, and fluency.
At Elerian AI, we specialize in transforming BPO contact centres with fluent automated conversations. Collaborating with our clients, we deliver exceptional caller experiences and handle thousands of live telephone calls a day in English, catering to South Africans with diverse dialects. Ultimately, customer satisfaction and ease of interaction are paramount in any DVA deployment. If the alternative is wasting time in a long queue only to be met with a disappointing response from a human agent, perhaps it's time to have a chat with the Elerian Digital Agent. It truly speaks South African!