Managing Speech Projects for Maximum Efficiency Christoph Mosing, Vice President of Professional Services, Envox Worldwide.

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Managing Speech Projects for Maximum Efficiency Christoph Mosing, Vice President of Professional Services, Envox Worldwide

Agenda How to get started with speech Elements of a speech project VUI design tips Development and testing requirements Planning for the future

Getting Started Create a great team –Diverse group with representatives from the management team, business unit, contact center management, agent pool, sales, marketing, IT, telephony and development –Let everyone have a voice Do your research –Carefully examine customer service operations and business processes Determine your speech strategy –Speech enabling existing IVR solutions –Leveraging speech to create new customer services –Enterprise-wide speech deployments to increase productivity

Plan, Plan, Plan Carefully outline the project’s requirements –Functional Specification Project scope –Voice User Interface Specification Directed dialog, natural language or mixed initiative Call flow Prompts, grammars, error handling, live assistance offering… Include information on persona within the documentation –System Requirements Specification Network layout of speech servers to maximize response Integration with data sources to provide input/output for speech solutions –Deployment Plan How the solution will be tested and deployed

Set Expectations Educate the entire team on everything –Not everyone understands the technical details that go into a project –Developers can create better solutions when they truly understand a company’s business model and goals –Agents provide important information on customer attitudes and needs Create realistic timelines –Make sure everyone understands what they need to deliver and when –Leave room for extensive testing and application tuning Set clear goals –Make sure everyone has agreed on what you are trying to accomplish (offer a new service, offload x% of calls from agents, lower costs by y%, etc…) Provide major stakeholders with regular updates and continue to get buy-in as you go

Design a Great User Interface Consider your solution’s “persona” Make it fast & easy Use silence Speak in a common language Take errors seriously Make sure grammars carefully match prompts Consider offering multiple languages to better serve your entire customer base

Create a Development Plan Speech application projects require multiple disciplines –Project Management –Voice User Interface design –Application logic –Grammar development –Backend integration –Telephony programming –System integration Know when to tap consultants Consider using specialized development tools to augment in-house capabilities Check for pre-built grammars and packaged applications that match your application needs to speed development Use open, standards-based development methods and deployment platforms to ensure portability and smooth integration with other systems Leverage existing application development efforts. Create a speech interface for existing web and business applications.

Create a Development Plan Speech application projects require multiple disciplines –Project Management –Voice User Interface design –Application logic –Grammar development –Back-end integration –Telephony programming –System integration Know when to tap consultants Consider using specialized development tools to augment in-house capabilities Check for pre-built grammars and packaged applications that match your application needs to speed development Use open, standards-based development methods and deployment platforms to ensure portability and smooth integration with other systems Leverage existing application development efforts. Create a speech interface for existing Web and business applications.

Test, Test, Test For new self-service applications, consider providing agents with the dialogue scripts to determine caller acceptance and responses Consider “Wizard of Oz” testing prior to development to monitor response to a variety of prompts Design an extensive QA program –Ensure internal test groups feature multiple dialects and accents –Create pilot programs for each self-service application Divert a small portion of calls to the test site to better understand the “tuning” required to perfect each application –Be ready to adjust call flows, prompts, speech grammars, thresholds and other parameters as testing continues – even after the cutover

Launch Training Make sure everyone is aware of the scope and goals of your speech project before it goes live –Project team –Management team –Business unit –Agents & contact center personnel –Customers & partners Educate contact center personnel on how to handle confused or irate customers

Plan for the Future Create and analyze customer satisfaction surveys Tweaking prompts to shorten navigation as users become more sophisticated Evaluate solution from IT perspective to reduce latency Update grammars as needed New applications

For Additional Information Christoph Mosing Vice President of Professional Services Envox Worldwide VISIT US AT BOOTH #523