Noise cancellation for at-home agents

On August 1, 2022

In today’s world, an increasing number of employees are working from their home-office. Few of the advantages of this work model are: reducing cost on infrastructure and shared work spaces, minimizing geographic limitations and saving commute time. There are many organizations that appreciate the advantages of such work model and encourage it. Following are few […]

5 ways to cancel noise in call centers

On August 1, 2022

Noise is always disturbing but in contact centers it might impact business since the revenue relies on business calls and if these calls suffer from low quality then the impact on business is immediate. In this post we will cover few ways to cancel noise in call centers and specifically in phone calls. Prevention As […]

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 […]

Reference based Noise Reduction

On July 28, 2022

Background Ambient noise during phone calls is annoying especially when the phone calls are a significant part of your business. Let’s assume you run a call center or a shared workspace and there is temporary (or constant) source of noise that is picked up by the phones of the agents and therefore this noise is […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

AI, Can you identify who is speaking?

On June 13, 2021

The voice of each person sounds different and has its own unique characteristics. These characteristics can be divided into linguistic vs. non-linguistic and also to auditory vs. acoustic ones. This fact is being used for decades in forensic cases. When needed, the speech is being analyzed using different methods to provide forensic proof. For example, […]

Noise during outbound sales calls

On February 22, 2021

It is a well-known fact that noise in calls is disturbing. It might not be surprising to realize that the success of outbound sales calls is significantly impacted by the quality of the call. It is not rare that customers hear the ambient noise of the call center before the agents start talking and hang […]