Customer Interaction Technologies

The list of solutions used in customer interaction and relationships management is changing rapidly as technology advances and make more possible. From chatbots to IVR, the technologies contained here are far-reaching. See below for the latest customer interaction technology news, trends, and solutions.

Features

AI Teaches Avatars How to Talk

Lip sync solutions increase immersion and drive user engagement.

AI Is Rapidly Automating Audio Content Generation

New solutions lower costs and improve voice quality.

The Top Speech Technologies and Vendors: The 2024 Speech Industry Awards

Artificial intelligence is now integral to speech technology, a fact reflected by our winning vendors.

2024 Speech Industry Award Winner: aiOla Speaks Your Business’ Unique Language

Speech technologies have typically had a hard time understanding jargon, abbreviations, and acronyms, but Israeli startup aiOla is changing all that.

Industry Voices

The Most Boring Voice AI Deployment Is Answering Your Phone

While the industry's attention is on reasoning models and agentic workflows, the voice AI use case with the clearest, most measurable return today is picking up the phone when a small business can't.

Why Voice AI Is the Next Frontier in Customer Conversations

Conversational AI is now mature enough to support real, human-sounding voice interaction. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

Scaling Trust, Earning Customer Love: The Reality of AI Voice Agents

What it really takes to build an AI voice agent that customers trust and on which teams can rely.

The Healthcare Industry's Strategic Advantage Is Now Voice AI

Voice isn't just the interface between humans and systems anymore; it's the intelligence layer binding them together.