Noise in multi-channel contact centers

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On August 9, 2020

Today, some of the legacy call centers are being converted to multi-channel contact centers. In addition to taking phone calls, the agents also provide service via other non-voice channels like: live-chat, social media and emails. These multi-channel contact centers are noisy like the legacy call centers but is there a difference in the approach for […]

Centralized vs. Local Noise Reduction in Call Centers

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On June 22, 2020

In this post we will discuss the difference between a centralized vs. a stand-alone solution to perform noise reduction in call centers. The need to cancel the noise in contact center is obvious as this noise has a direct impact on customer experience, accuracy of voice analytics, security and overall performance of the call center. […]

Noise Free Conference Calls

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On May 1, 2020

The social distancing forced upon us by the Covid-19 causes a significant change in the way business people are communicating. Business meetings are now replaced by phone calls. In addition to the rise in the usage of phone calls there is also a change in their audio quality. People are not making these calls from […]

Noise Cancelling Headsets – the soft version

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On March 19, 2020

What is required from a software to replace a noise cancelling headsets? In this post we will review the multiple functions of the noise cancelling headsets and discuss how they could be replaced by a software. Echo Cancellation Echo is one of the most disturbing source of noise. It appears when the audio that is […]

Noise in Contact Centers and ROI

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On February 18, 2020

Most of the contact centers are very noisy. The noise usually contains human voices like the speech of agents sitting in the background or the voice of the supervisor giving instructions. Apart from being a nuisance does this noise have an impact on performance and can ROI be improved by eliminating this noise? In this […]

Cancelling the voice of the supervisor

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On January 29, 2020

Contact centers are noisy locations and suffer from significant ambient noise. One of the most noisy locations in the call center is the cubic of the supervisors (a.k.a the team leaders). What exactly happens in the supervisor’s cubic that causes so much noise? In many cases the supervisor is not on a call but has […]

Noise cancelling app cancels what?

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On December 22, 2019

We are frequency approached by new prospects with a simple request: could you help us cancel the noise in our audio? In order to address this question professionally, we first we need to understand what exactly stands behind the general word “noise” in the prospect’s request. Apparently there are many types of noise in audio […]

ASR in a Noisy Environment

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On November 11, 2019

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a powerful technology that uses advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. ASR improves the quality of service while reducing its cost. Modern ASR engines are being trained to recognize different languages and dialects. They can also be trained for an industry-specific vocabulary. Overall, modern ASR engines are very accurate […]

Bandwidth to cancel noise in call centers

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On August 8, 2019

How much money are you loosing every day due to the noise in your call center? How many outbound sales calls fail since the customer is annoyed by the disturbing noise coming from your call center? How much effort needs to be invested to fix the inaccurate results of your speech-to-text engine that are caused […]

Noise in multilingual call centers

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On May 29, 2019

Some of the call centers provide service in more than one language. This happens in countries that have more than a single formal language or in call centers that provide offshore BPO service to many countries. In these call centers calls are conducted in parallel in many languages. In this post we will not discuss […]