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  • 1.  Moving from English Call Flow to Multi-Language

    Posted yesterday

    Hi - 

    Forgive me in advance for a potentially silly question. 

    When we migrated from Engage to Cloud a year and a half ago, our Architect flows were set up strictly in English language.   However, we have several lines of business that do take calls in other languages like Spanish, Japanese and Korean.   Currently, those languages are handled only as skills in our call flows.  We would like to progress our setup to be able to utilize the language component more, including being able to offer our post call and post chat surveys in those alternate languages.   Can anyone share their experience with expanding their architect flows from strictly English (or one language) to mutliple languages?  

    Thank you!
    Janine


    #ArchitectandDesign

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    Janine Ankney
    Omni Solutions Lead - Genesys
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  • 2.  RE: Moving from English Call Flow to Multi-Language

    Posted yesterday

    Hello, @Janine Ankney.

    I would approach this as more than just adding language skills. Language skills help with routing, but the Architect flow language controls prompts, TTS, speech recognition, and the customer experience inside the flow.

    A good first step is to add the supported languages to the existing flows and decide how the language will be selected. For example, by DNIS, customer profile, IVR menu option, or previous CRM preference. After that, use Set Language early in the flow so prompts and TTS follow the right language.

    For prompts, I would decide based on the customer experience and maintenance needs. Some teams prefer recorded prompts for stable and high-impact messages, while others use TTS to make updates easier across multiple languages. A hybrid approach can also work well: keep stable prompts more controlled and use TTS for dynamic or frequently changed messages.

    I would also avoid converting the whole environment at once. Start with one language and one line of business, validate the caller journey, routing, agent language skill, reporting, and survey behavior, then expand.

    For post-call or post-chat surveys, I would test this separately. Don't assume the same survey flow or form will behave perfectly for all languages without validating the language, prompt text, TTS, and survey behavior.

    So my recommendation would be: define the language selection logic first, add supported languages in Architect, localize the prompts, keep language skills for routing, and pilot one language before scaling.



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    Arthur Pereira Reinoldes
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  • 3.  RE: Moving from English Call Flow to Multi-Language

    Posted yesterday

    Thank you!  I may come back to pick your brain some more, but this definitely helps. 



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    Janine Ankney
    Omni Solutions Lead - Genesys
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  • 4.  RE: Moving from English Call Flow to Multi-Language
    Best Answer

    Posted yesterday

    With Genesys Architect Flows, you can add a language at the click of a checkbox.  This will allow all system prompts to play in the language chosen once you change the language in the flow under Supported languages.  The hard part (relatively) is changing all your prompts for Spanish in the flow.  One option is to use translation to just create Spanish prompts as TTS and leave it at that.  Since this is a low number of calls, I would not be concerned about the TTS costs. Anyone can copy and paste into Google Translate for each prompt, and you have multilingual flows in a few hours. The one trick is that if you want to change a language in your flow, you need to transfer to a task, change the prompt, then go back up to your menu or starting task.  This is necessary since the language will not change until a task is complete.  

    This principle will be the same through Bot Flows, Surveys, and whatever else you want to use it with.



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    Robert Wakefield-Carl
    ttec Digital
    Sr. Director - Innovation Architects
    Robert.WC@ttecdigital.com
    https://www.ttecDigital.com
    https://RobertWC.Blogspot.com
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