Human factors/ergonomics researchers have studied how the gender and tone selected for an interactive voice response system, or IVR, affects its user-friendliness. The personality and gender of the ...

"How can we design a system that our customers will actually use?" Providers of speech-enabled interactive voice response (IVR) systems are asked this question on a daily basis. Some of us joke that ...

When it comes to running a small or mid-sized business, answering the phone is an essential part of the day-to-day. And even though a ringing telephone may distract from urgent tasks, it might not ...

In part one of this two-part article, we discussed the recent re-evolution and technological improvements of speech interactive voice response (IVR) technology as well as a number of the ways that ...

We suspected it may be happening, but Datamonitor confirms it in a new report: "'Traditional' touchtone interactive voice response (IVR) -- utilized by businesses over the past two decades for the ...

“2. The method of claim 1, wherein the service environment includes an interactive voice response (IVR) interface. “3. The method of claim 2, wherein: the second service request is a call to the IVR ...

Boston-based Envox Worldwide is releasing an update to Envox CT ADE: version 9.1 of its interactive voice response (IVR) development tool. The company says Envox CT ADE is a rapid application ...