Improving the Effectiveness of Speech and IVR
Course Description
Gain the knowledge and skills you need to plan, design and implement effective touch-tone and speech recognition self-service systems.
ICMI and Enterprise Integration Group, Inc. (EIG) have joined forces to bring you practical guidance on designing the best customer-focused Interactive Voice Response (IVR) for your business. Learn scientifically-proven techniques that increase throughput and IVR containment while reducing errors.
You will learn how to:
- Understand specialized IVR terms and abbreviations
- Design a customer-focused IVR
- Apply principles from human psychology
- Structure menus that are easy to navigate
- Use natural language that helps (not hinders) customer satisfaction
- Evaluate your IVR's quality
- Create scripts that communicate your brand and make sense to the customer
- Migrate to speech recognition (if that is appropriate for your application)
- Implement your design successfully with thorough planning and testing
- Make the IVR business case
Who Should Attend?
VPs, Directors, Managars, and IVR Specialists responsible for customer contact applications.
Cancellation Policy
Full payment is required prior to attendance. In rare instances, a course will be rescheduled or postponed. ICMI will provide at least 10 days notice. You may receive a full refund, or take a credit toward another ICMI course. ICMI cannot be held responsible for penalties resulting from travel arrangements. Participants cancelling their registration with less than 10 days notice will be subject to a $150.00 USD course processing fee. No shows will pay full course rates.
If weather conditions dictate that we have to cancel a training course with short notice, we will immediately release an email letting the participants know. An announcement will also be made available by clicking on the course details available on ICMI’s course schedule http://www.icmi.com/Training/calendar.aspx. Generally the decision will be made the day prior to the start of the course. Under certain circumstances we may have to withhold the decision to cancel a course until the last minute, due to the instructor’s ability to make it to the training facility. For courses starting on a Monday, please make sure to check your email and the ICMI website on Sunday evening.
In the event that we do have to cancel a training course at the last minute, your ICMI account manager will contact you via phone call to either reschedule you in to an alternate course or provide you with a full refund of the course price.
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Improving the Effectiveness of Speech and IVRUnit 1: The Business Case
- Introduction to IVR
- The telephone user interface
- The IVR business case
- Speech recognition migration
- Evaluating IVR quality
- Introduction to Speech Technology
- Vocabularies, grammars, and accuracy
- Types of speech dialogues
- Voice portals
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Unit 2: Strategy and Structure
- Design principles and planning
- High level call flow
Unit 3: Top-Down Design
- Use-cases and Desk-testing
- Greetings and opening menus
- Speech, psychology and ergonomics
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Unit 4: The Voice User Interface
- Understanding Confidence
- Gathering User Input
- Phonetic Transcription
- Why "help" doesn't help
Unit 5: All About Menus
- Introduction to Menus
- Basic Scripting
- Style and personality
- Scripting Exercises
- Re-crafting scripts for speech
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Unit 6: Timing and Error Recovery
- Pauses, Read-Back & Confirmation
- Handling OOG (out -of -grammar)
- Drill-Down Techniques
Unit 7: Putting it All Together
- Scripting Exercises
- Introduction to Voice Biometrics
- Top 10 Reasons IVR Projects Fail
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