Noise Cancelling Headsets – the soft version

On March 19, 2020

What is required from a software to replace a noise cancelling headphone? 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

On December 5, 2021

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

On July 24, 2022

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?

On July 5, 2023

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

On September 19, 2023

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

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

On July 29, 2022

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 […]

Echo and noise in Kiosks and Vending Machines

On April 23, 2019

Kiosks and vending machines are perhaps the most widely used devices that can be found almost in any public area. Their main purpose is to provide a wide spread service in almost any public location. These devices are very common and their number is not very different from the size of the human population. For […]

Skype for business and audio quality

On April 19, 2019

Skype for business is a very powerful and popular communication platform and is used by many organizations. Using Skype for business is both a convenient and economic way for collaboration. Skype is used by the employees to communicate both with fellow workers and also with people outside the organization. In this post we would like […]

High Availability In Call Centers

On November 15, 2023

The telephony system in call centers is a critical component that is the heart of the operation. Any disruption to the normal flow of the phone calls will result in a significant damage to the business. For example, let’s look at a busy call center that is unable to accept new calls for few minute […]