Speech Technology eWeekly - August 22, 2018

Industry Voices

How Conversational Self-Service Improves the Contact Center Experience (Video)

Omilia's Quinn Agen discusses the way an an end-to-end conversational approach in machine-to-human interaction helps deliver satisfying contact center experiences in this clip from SpeechTEK 2018.

How Machine Learning and AI Can Enhance Virtual Agent Training (Video)

USAA's Brett Knight discusses how USAA has used machine learning and AI in virtual agent training at the enterpise level in this clip from SpeechTEK 2018.

Why Customers Prefer Conversational Self-Service (Video)

Omilia's Quinn Agen discusses the advantages of taking a conversational approach in automated contact center customer care in this clip from SpeechTEK 2018.

How to Assemble a Conversational Development Team for Virtual Agents (Video)

USAA's Brett Knight describes all the players enterprises should assemble when planning conversational development for virtual agents in this clip from SpeechTEK 2018.

Video: How to Train Virtual Agents to Recognize Customer Needs

USAA's Brett Knight explains how to train virtual agents to anticipate customer needs more effectively in this clip from SpeechTEK 2018.

Video: Rules-Based Chatbot Design, Part 2: Visual Representation and Support

Aspect's Andreas Volmer discusses the value of visually representing conversational flow logic in chatbot design, and explores the advantages of a language-based approach over a statistically based approach in this clip from SpeechTEK 2018.

Video: Rules-Based Chatbot Design, Part 1: Syntactical and Semantical Analysis

Aspect's Andreas Volmer discusses key components of a rules-based approach to chatbot design based on a robust language model in Part 1 of this two-part series from SpeechTEK 2018.

Video: How Do You Build Engaging Contact Center Experiences?

AWS Head of Product, Language Tech Vikram Anzabhagan outlines 4 essential strategies for leveraging technology to make contact center interactions more personal, conversational, agile, and engaging in this clip from his SpeechTEK 2018 keynote.

Video: How Hardware Advances Have Transformed NLP

O'Reilly Media's Paco Nathan discusses the explosive growth in CPUs and GPUs that have opened new vistas for natural-language processing applications and rendered old approaches obsolete in this clip from his SpeechTEK 2018 keynote.

Video: What Can NLP Do for Your Converted Text?

Paco Nathan of O'Reilly Media's R & D Group discusses the benefits of natural-language processing (NLP) when working with text converted from video in this clip from his SpeechTEK 2018 keynote.

Video: How to Improve UX and User Rating for Your Alexa Skill

Witlingo Product Manager Navya Nayaki Yelloji discusses the successful product development and QA strategy Witlingo created for its Motley Fool Alexa Skill in this presentation from SpeechTEK 2018.