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  • 1.  real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-03-2023 15:12

    Currently our call center is predominantly made up of english speaking agents. Whenever we receive a call where someone needs to speak another language we utilize a third party translator company(a human) by conferencing them in. Does anyone know if there is a way to integrate a real time translator such as a voice bot that can translate what we say in English to the customers language and vice versa? 


    #ArchitectureandDesign
    #ConversationalAI(Bots,AgentAssist,etc.)
    #Integrations
    #PlatformAdministration
    #SystemAdministration
    #Telephony

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    dawn weston
    AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
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  • 2.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-03-2023 23:35

    You are about 15-18 months ahead of the technology there.  Genesys has plans for real-time translation for voice, but I would not expect it until late next year - but you never know what generative AI will come up with between now and then.  As for digital, you can do that now with the blueprint on AppFoundry:  Genesys AppFoundry - Genesys Cloud Chat Translator Blueprint (mypurecloud.com), but again, Genesys will have that pretty soon as well!



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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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  • 3.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-06-2023 10:04

    thanks robert!



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    dawn weston
    AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
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  • 4.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-05-2023 17:41

    Dawn,

    While they are not technically integrated to Genesys yet, you might check out Vocalls: https://www.vocalls.ai/.  They are looking to join the Genesys AppFoundry marketplace and they have a product that can do real-time, live voice translations.  I believe this is a fairly new product for them, but they did a live demo with me and I was absolutely amazed by how well it works.

    Good luck.



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    Jim Crespino
    Senior Director, Developer Evangelism
    Genesys
    https://developer.genesys.com
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  • 5.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-06-2023 10:03

    Jim,

    cool thanks, ill take a look!



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    dawn weston
    AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
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  • 6.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-07-2023 00:36

    Yes, that looks very cool.  Do they have an agent-client app or agent assist plug-in that allows this to be accessible during the conversation>  



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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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  • 7.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-07-2023 09:29

    @Robert Wakefield-Carl as they have not yet built an integration to Genesys, nothing really exists yet, but I will definitely bring that up to them as a use case that they might thing of implementing.



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    Jim Crespino
    Senior Director, Developer Evangelism
    Genesys
    https://developer.genesys.com
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  • 8.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-07-2023 10:17

    One of my issues with AI powered real-time translation services, is you lose the human element / empathy on both sides. The agent may not be able to understand the vocal inflections and tone changes to indicate what the caller is going through and articulating, but just gets the words only in their own language. And the caller will likely not hear the empathy in the agent's voice to feel they understand the issue etc. 

    I would imagine CSAT scores would go down, but that may be an acceptable risk due to revenue saved etc. 



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    Charles Skowron
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  • 9.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-07-2023 04:16

    HI Dawn, have you or your team looked at using Genesys Cloud Audio hook? This allows you to stream voice to AWS, and use AWS sentiment analysis as well as transcription services. You get on AWS a report by conversation and if you can enrich conversation meta data by calling GC conversation details API to get the agent name or any other data in real time. 

    https://github.com/purecloudlabs/audiohook-reference-implementation#genesys-audiohook-sample-service 

    If anyone else has used audiohook, feedbacks are welcome

    Thanks



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    Hichem Agrebi
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  • 10.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-07-2023 10:55

    Hey Hichem,

    No I haven't looked at that- but I'm looking more for a live translation service not necessarily transcription. 



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    dawn weston
    AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
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  • 11.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-07-2023 11:00

    Dawn,

    We have 4 or 5 translation companies on Genesys Cloud.  Happy to give you some names if you email me directly.   Robert.WC@ttecdigital.com 



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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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  • 12.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-07-2023 11:09

    hey Robert, thanks- we currently have a third party translation service we use - but was looking to eliminate them by using a live translation AI/bot. much like google translate....except voice and real time



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    dawn weston
    AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
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  • 13.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-09-2023 14:53
    Edited by Carlos Eduardo Santos 07-09-2023 15:08

    Hi.

    Take a look on this page..  https://aws.amazon.com/pt/blogs/machine-learning/live-call-analytics-and-agent-assist-for-your-contact-center-with-amazon-language-ai-services/

    "Live translation
    LCA now supports real-time translation of call transcripts using Amazon Translate, enabling agents or supervisors to see transcripts in a language of their choice. Use Enable Translation at the top of the Call Transcript pane, and choose from the list of available languages supported by Amazon Translate. Your language choice is now the default when you enable translation again. Translated text in the chosen language appears below each completed transcription segment in real time for in-progress calls and for the entire transcript of completed calls. When you enable translation during a live call the subsequent transcript segments are translated in real time, and when the call ends, the whole transcript is automatically translated so that you can review the call in both spoken and translated languages without leaving the page."

    CCI Genesys Cloud AudioHook --> https://youtu.be/YTLs4ifHM3c?t=2787

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    Carlos Eduardo Santos
    UOL - Universo Online
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  • 14.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-10-2023 10:26
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    Hello Dawn,

    Hope you are well. We are a Premium Application on AppFoundry. The Commerce.AI Platform offers  Real-Time Translation via the Genesys AudioHook. Here is. snapshot of the UI. Happy to schedule a demo. Please shoot me a DM jay@commerce.AI or genesys@commerce.ai



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    Jay Acosta
    Tall Idea Labs DBA Commerce.AI
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  • 15.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 08-22-2023 13:18

    We are currently researching different ways of delivering translation. Would love to get more detail from yourself or others who might be interested! 

    leor.grebler@genesys.com

    Looking forward to sharing more soon!

    Leor



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    Leor Grebler
    Genesys - Employees
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  • 16.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 11-10-2023 06:00

    Hi Leor,

    we are very interested in a system that transcribes the voice and possibly translates it into English (or any other language).
    could you tell me what is the best option currently in the field?

    is there a defined roadmap to have it in the future?

    Thanks

    Alessandro



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    Alessandro Scocco
    Indra Italia spa
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  • 17.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 11-10-2023 09:41

    Hi Alessandro,

    We do have integrations and partners today who can work on this and are exploring a few ideas now. Please do reach out directly (leor.grebler@genesys.com) as we'd love to get feedback.

    Leor



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    Leor Grebler, Principal Product Manager - Voice Transcription
    leor.grebler@genesys.com
    Genesys - Employees
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  • 18.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 11-10-2023 11:44

    Hello Alessandro,

    Hope you are well. Our Premium application auto-MATE offers translation. Were you looking for real-time or post call?  Happy to schedule a demo of our platform. Let me know what works for you. 

    Jay Acosta

    jay@commerce.ai



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    Jay Acosta
    Tall Idea Labs DBA Commerce.AI
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  • 19.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-22-2024 07:30

    Hi Genesys Team,

    Anything new on that real time voice translation topic? One of my customer would be interested. Below, an example of a use case:

    If a French-speaking user calls the service desk but there is no French-speaking agent available,

    the voice will be translated into English and vice versa on the fly.

    Does Genesys have such functionality as a live translator in its portfolio? Or is it planned in the future? Or maybe there is an integration with 3rd party for such feature?

    Recently, similar AI-based solutions have begun to enter the market.



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    Lionel Largent
    Orange SA
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  • 20.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-22-2024 11:18

    We support this functionality at Commerce.AI. Please contact us at human@commerce.ai 

    This is the AppFoundry link https://appfoundry.genesys.com/filter/genesyscloud/listing/2a108bf9-b802-45cd-8170-d9ed66e9a48d

    Genesys remove preview
    View this on Genesys >



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    Jay Acosta
    Tall Idea Labs DBA Commerce.AI
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  • 21.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 07-25-2024 09:33

    Hi all,

    We're still investigating different solutions. Currently, we're looking at translation on demand post-interaction with more details in come in the fall.

    Is the application to have an interpreter-type solution for voice?

    Thanks so much!

    Leor



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    Leor Grebler, Principal Product Manager - Voice Transcription
    leor.grebler@genesys.com
    Genesys - Employees
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  • 22.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 08-12-2024 18:30

    Good day Leor, We have a BIG telco customer that requires the same solution, Call comes in and gets transcribed and then the transcription on the conversation needs to be in English. (They are looking to use Genesys EVT (Azure) for transcription. Languages required in English: Afrikaans, Sesotho, Zulu)

    The challenge here is to have the final transcription of all conversations available in English to facilitate the QA process, as not all QA staff can read/understand all the languages.
    So it's more a QA interpreter assistant.

    Maybe there could be a secondary transcript language tab on the conversation so you have visibility of original transcript and the translated version.



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    Dewald Smit
    Altron Systems Integration a Division of Altron TMT (Pty) Ltd
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  • 23.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 08-13-2024 04:39
    Edited by Hichem Agrebi 08-13-2024 04:46

    Hi Dewald, we do have a solution that does exactly what you are after. It does auto-Analysis and Auto-QA in English for calls transcribed in Afrikaans, Sesotho, Zulu for which extended analyis and evaluation is provided by default in English language with on-demand translation (of the analysis and evaluation) to any other supported language. This is for example to cover the case whereby a user prefers to read the summary or compliance analysis in Afrikaans in addition to English. The translation is done once and is available to all other users besides to the default english analysis.

    The solution is fully integrated into Genesys Cloud APIs to enforce any existing access permissions. 

    We are in the process of registering our COMPASS solution on AppFoundry.

    In summary all auto analysis and evaluation is streamlined in english language with capabilities to do on-demand translations for all Genesys and Azure supported languages using modern  and private LLM engine. The best part is that such advanced features do not cost an arm and a leg and are usage based. You could even control the volume of conversations to process and set a cap to your budget.

    Feel free to reach out if you'd like to discuss your requirements and give you a demo to show case the solution capabilities and some pretty cool advanced features.



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    Hichem Agrebi
    hichem.agrebi@cc-expertise.com
    CC-Expertise Ltd
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  • 24.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 08-13-2024 13:04

    Thanks Dewald and Hichem. We are looking to release a Translate capability that will be on-demand. Afrikaans will be supported but I need to check on Sesotho and Zulu.  Hope to post back here soon.

    Hichem, this sounds great and excited to see it in AppFoundry!



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    Leor Grebler, Principal Product Manager - Voice Transcription
    leor.grebler@genesys.com
    Genesys - Employees
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  • 25.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 08-16-2024 20:15

    I believe this is the ideas record for the upcoming Genesys feature that Leor is referring to: https://genesyscloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/STA-I-56



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    Derek Cowan
    Intel Corporation
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  • 26.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 08-19-2024 11:45

    That's right, Derek. It will be On Demand. Date is likely a bit later than October 7 - we are still finalizing.



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    Leor Grebler, Principal Product Manager - Voice Transcription
    leor.grebler@genesys.com
    Genesys - Employees
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  • 27.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 09-04-2024 03:33

    Hi Leor,

    One of my customer is also having high interest in Real-Time Voice translation.

    Their use case is the following:

    The feature will allow their agents to handle the calls without language barriers. Eg: customer speaks in French language, agents hear in English and vice versa.

    Can we have some update about this feature? And if the expected delivery date would still be in a long time, what other solutions would you recommend?

    Thanks.



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    Lionel Largent
    Orange SA
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  • 28.  RE: real time voice translation?

    Posted 09-05-2024 10:55

    It's available but expensive. https://www.cognigy.com/solutions/cognigy-for-genesys



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    Rial Coleman
    Sr. VoIP Administrator
    District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority
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