Why Use Amazon Lex? Embedding chat bots and virtual assistants into your applications and contact flows has never been more essential to the customer experience than it is today. Amazon Lex is an Amazon Web Service (AWS) product that provides conversational interfaces powered by the same conversational engine, ASR (automatic speech recognition), and NLU (natural […]
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Advanced Lex: Collecting Alphanumeric Part Numbers
Companies with service technicians can leverage an advanced Lex technique to allow their IVR to accept alphanumeric part numbers without complicated dialing schemes. An IVR that can accept part numbers, invoice numbers, and various other complex identifiers easily and accurately can speed up processing and increase customer satisfaction. Numeric identifiers are easy for Lex. The caller […]
Join Us for an Amazon Connect Advanced Workshop on January 27!
We are excited to announce that Perficient and AWS are partnering to offer an insight-filled, interactive workshop on Amazon Connect. This workshop will explore best practices around contact flows, as well as guide you through using Amazon Lex and Contact Lens for Amazon Connect. Click here to register for the workshop! In this four-hour accelerated […]
Amazon Connect Health Check
Contact Centers are a critical component of every business as it is an entry point for its customers and a pivotal factor in creating a public image. Having a poor and frustrating customer experience can not only turn away existing customers but prevent future growth. The Amazon Connect Health Check can help with identifying subpar […]
Perficient’s Amazon Connect Team – Jack Sombeck
As a member of the Amazon Web Services Partner Network, Perficient combines cloud expertise with the power of AWS to enable quick access to innovative technologies. Clients can spend more time on their core business competencies and less time worrying about the technology behind it. A product within the Amazon Web Services platform, Amazon Connect […]
AWS Summit 2019 – 4 Popular Topics
The AWS Summit took place in Toronto on Thursday, October 3rd. AWS Summits are generally free to attend and take place in many different cities around the world. Positioned as a learning conference, they’re a fantastic way to connect with other people in the AWS world, learn about upcoming releases, chat with vendors, and more. […]
A Short Intro to SSML in Amazon Connect
Introduction to SSML tags – what are they? We’ve all had that experience of phoning into a contact center and hearing a robotic, impersonal voice on the other end. SSML (which stands for ‘synthesized speech mark-up language’) tags can be added into your Amazon Connect Contact flows to customize your speech prompts, adding a more […]
Amazon Connect: Keypad Input Support for Lex-powered Contact Flow
What is it? Amazon just released a new feature for Amazon Connect—keypad input for Lex-powered IVR menus. This is very exciting news for Amazon Connect users who want to give callers the ability to speak or type based on their preference when responding to prompts. Why should I use this? It’s not uncommon for companies to […]
Self-service Contact Center with Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex
In this blog post we show you how to integrate Amazon Connect with Amazon Lex to provide a self-service call center experience. Amazon Connect is a cloud-based contact center solution, very quick to deploy, configure and simple to use. The following 80-second recording illustrates a call to an Internal Help desk, to automatically open a service ticket […]