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  • 1.  Need to offer 11 languages options to follow caller through IVRs

    Posted 26 days ago

    I need some guidance on how to offer 11 languages in our Incoming call flow IVRs, where the language selected will determine the recording played for each reusable task in the IVR.

    After selecting language, we need the caller to be offered the option of two reusable tasks. If the caller has one of the 6 languages offered the call flow works perfectly. For example, if you select Spanish as the language, you are then offered the next reusable task in the chosen language of Spanish, and same with the 3rd reusable task. However, we only want a single digit language selection option so need to have two levels of language selection offered. If the language is NOT one of the first 6 then the reusable tasks are offered only in English. Does anyone have an example of how they programmed two levels of language selection to work in an Incoming call flow?

    I have spent WAY too many hours trying different options to get this to work properly, all to no avail. 

    #IVRConfiguration, #AdditionalLanguages, #Language Selection, #IncomingCalls


    #ArchitectandDesign
    #Routing(ACD/IVR)

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    Charlie Scheel, LCSW
    The Legal Aid Society
    New York
    Director - Helplines
    www.legalaidnyc.org
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  • 2.  RE: Need to offer 11 languages options to follow caller through IVRs
    Best Answer

    Posted 26 days ago

    Hey Charlie,

    Do you have maybe a drawing/chart of what you want to achieve?

    From your description I'm not sure what the issue is.

    I can only assume that your primary issue is that you have 11 languages, but you only want the caller to dial 1 digit for the selection (which would be from 0 to 9, so you don't have 11 options), right?

    Because of that you are trying to break that into 2 different menu selections.. Is that the case?

    Something like: "For xxx press 0... For yyy press 1....For zzzz press 6.. Otherwise press 7 to hear other possible languages.."

    Then the caller presses 7 and you offer a few more languages.... Is that what you are trying to do?

    If it is, I still can't really see the issue. Maybe if you can give some more details and examples of what's going wrong, I might be able to give some inputs.



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    Marcello Jabur
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  • 3.  RE: Need to offer 11 languages options to follow caller through IVRs

    Posted 26 days ago

    Have you considered using a simple bot?  All department we can do is just ask him what language they would like to speak have a time out for English and then you can support me languages that you want by just having them speak either in English the language name or in their own language using phonetics to understand that.



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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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  • 4.  RE: Need to offer 11 languages options to follow caller through IVRs

    Posted 25 days ago

    Thanks, Robert. Unfortunately, bots are way above my skill level. I am a social worker who has self taught (through trainings and online Help pages) everything I know in Genesys. We don't have IT support or a budget for such, except for a telephony manager who assist with the trunks and specific telephony issues. 

    I like the idea, but not ready for this just yet. 



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    Charlie Scheel, LCSW
    The Legal Aid Society
    New York
    Director - Helplines
    www.legalaidnyc.org
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  • 5.  RE: Need to offer 11 languages options to follow caller through IVRs

    Posted 25 days ago

    Thanks for your quick response, Marcello. You are exactly right in your description. I have included a couple of screenshots of the flow. 

    Very much appreciate your assistance. 



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    Charlie Scheel, LCSW
    The Legal Aid Society
    New York
    Director - Helplines
    www.legalaidnyc.org
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  • 6.  RE: Need to offer 11 languages options to follow caller through IVRs

    Posted 25 days ago

    H Charlie,

    I can clearly see what you are trying to do, and it seems fine to me.

    I'm still not sure what you are having issues with.

    1) On your first Input Collection, you are basically asking if the caller wants to proceed with one of 5 languages from what I can tell, or if they need "Other" languages.

    2) If the caller selects the "Other languages" option, the call is sent to a secondary task, where you have another Input collection with a few more language options. Right?

    3) So from your original comment, what I understood is that if the caller selects any of the languages on the first menu, the rest of the flow is correctly executed in the selected language... But if the caller selects any of the languages on the secondary menu, none of those languages work correctly for the rest of the flow.

    Is my understanding correct?

    I can't imagine what could be going wrong in this case to be honest. It seems to be a pretty normal scenario, and I can't really see anything wrong in your screenshots.

    A few tips that might help:

    1) Try to move one of the primary languages (from the first menu) to the secondary menu (Like spanish in your example). Just to check if the issue is not related to specific languages... If spanish works on the second menu for instance you would have confirmation that the menu structure is not the issue, but the languages itself.

    2) If possible, enable Flow Execution History, you will be able to check step by step what is happening on your flow and the values being stored in each variable.

    This way you can confirm if the second menu is working properly, and if the call is actually proceeding through the selected option (where the language would be set, etc.)

    I can also see that on the path of each language you are setting some Participant Data. Were you able to check on your tests if those were written with the expected language in there? Or if for some reason an error is ocurring somewhere and the flow is just going through a "default path" and using english as a default selection, etc.

    Wish I could help more, but from the information you gave so far I can't see anything wrong at the moment.



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    Marcello Jabur
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