Boost Speech to Text Accuracy

On July 4, 2022

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch in science that is gaining momentum in the last years. Its holy grail is to build a machine that understand and respond to text or voice data the same way that humans do. NLP has gained momentum due to two main correlated reasons: (1) the increasing usage of […]

Sorry, what?

On June 2, 2022

In this post we would like to discuss a disturbance in phone calls that might happen from time to time: you are in a phone call but the voice of the other party is too weak making it had to understand. In this case you will initially try and increase the volume on your side […]

Aggressive noise cancellation

On April 3, 2022

In the last couple of years many vendors offer noise cancellation software that is aimed to attenuate the ambient noise in phone calls. The first question that comes into mind when testing such a software is, does my peer hear the ambient noise or not? Can he/she hear me slamming the door? What about my […]

Noise Locator

On March 3, 2022

Where is the noise coming from? Who or what is making the noise? Which of my employees suffer from significant ambient noise? These are all valid questions that any manager, especially a call center manage, might be asking. Answering these questions without an automatic tool is difficult especially if the employees are working from a […]

Convert open office to quiet office

On February 3, 2022

When people are making calls while they share the same workspace the cross-talk might be a source of a disturbing noise. This is true regardless if the people that share the open office are from the same company or from different companies as commonly happen in shared workspace. In this blog we will discuss how […]

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 […]

On December 4, 2021

Background [EDITED] The following blog post provides an overview on all major components that are required when building/designing an echo cancellation software. In this post we will discuss a common implementation issue we have seen many times – audio stream synchronization.

Don’t burn your CPU

On September 30, 2021

The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the heart of any computing system including, of course, your PC/laptop. The most important differentiator between PCs is the difference in the power of their CPU. On average, the power of the CPUs increases over the years. It is interesting to note that fifty years ago George Moore anticipated […]

CPU vs. GPU

On August 1, 2021

Background When developing a new application, especially an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based application, one of the questions that comes into mind: should the application be executed on the CPU (Central Processing Unit) or the GPU (Graphical Processing Unit). CPU is the main processing unit in every computer while GPU is a separate processing unit that […]

Insights on call quality

On July 4, 2021

Having accurate and comprehensive data is a key factor to controlling any situation. Regardless if you are managing an army a pandemic or a call center comprehensive and accurate data is what you need to improve your performance. For example, to control a pandemic you need to have enough data about the spread of the […]

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