Information provision for call centres
First Claim
1. An information interface system, comprising:
- a speech recognizer arranged to listen to telephone voice signals carried on a telephone communications channel between a user and another person, and to recognize at least one or more predefined keywords or phrases contained within the voice signals;
a keyword processor arranged to relate recognized keywords or phrases to items of information stored in an information database to identify relevant items of information thereto;
information display means arranged to display items of information and/or links thereto identified by the keyword processing means to the user; and
speech recognition control means arranged to automatically activate the speech recognizer in response to an operating system event automatically generated when a caller identification phase is completed.
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Abstract
A voice platform monitors a conversation between a call center agent and a caller to identify any predetermined keywords or phrases used in the conversation therebetween. These keywords or phrases can then be used to interface into an existing knowledge management system in order to allow information from the system to be pushed to the agent, thus improving agent efficiency. In a preferred embodiment additional processing is provided which generates an information item score based in the detected keywords or phrases, and those information items with the highest scores are then pushed to the agent, by displaying shortcuts to the information to the agent in the form of a shortcut tree.
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18 Claims
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1. An information interface system, comprising:
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a speech recognizer arranged to listen to telephone voice signals carried on a telephone communications channel between a user and another person, and to recognize at least one or more predefined keywords or phrases contained within the voice signals; a keyword processor arranged to relate recognized keywords or phrases to items of information stored in an information database to identify relevant items of information thereto; information display means arranged to display items of information and/or links thereto identified by the keyword processing means to the user; and speech recognition control means arranged to automatically activate the speech recognizer in response to an operating system event automatically generated when a caller identification phase is completed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of interfacing information to a user, said method comprising:
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listening to telephone voice signals carried on a telephone communications channel between the user and another person automatically recognizing, in response to an operating system event automatically generated when a caller identification phase is completed, at least one or more predefined keywords or phrases contained within the voice signals; relating any recognized keywords or phrases to items of information stored in an information database so as to identify relevant items of information thereto; and displaying any item of information and/or links thereto so identified to the user. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An information interface system comprising:
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a speech recognizer arranged to listen to telephone voice signals carried on a telephone communications channel between a user and another person, and to recognize at least one or more predefined keywords or phrases contained within the voice signals; a keyword processor arranged to relate recognized keywords or phrases to items of information stored in an information database to identify relevant items of information thereto; information display means arranged to display items of information and/or links thereto identified by the keyword processing means to the user; and an automatic timer arranged to automatically activate the speech recognizer after a predetermined time has expired since the start of the voice signals.
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18. A method of interfacing information to a user, said method comprising:
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listening to telephone voice signals carried on a telephone communications channel between the user and other person; automatically recognizing, in response to the expiry of a predetermined time set by an automatic timer, at least one or more predefined keywords or phrases contained within the voice signals; relating any recognized keywords or phrases to items of information thereto; and displaying any item of information and/or links thereto so identified to the user.
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