Addition of VoiSentry biometric engine into IPI product suite eases identity and verification process with voice biometric capabilities
Reading, UK – 9 January 2020 – IPI, the digital contact centre specialist, today announced it is partnering with Aculab, a leading provider of telephony hardware and software. The collaboration will integrate Aculab’s VoiSentry voice biometric system into IPI’s speech recognition applications to reduce the friction experienced during the identity and verification process (ID&V) in the contact centre.
The partnership will amalgamate Aculab’s VoiSentry voice biometric technology into IPI’s ID Me product suite. Aculab’s VoiSentry voice biometric system allows IPI, as part of its speech recognition applications, to verify a customer’s identity through their unique voiceprint. Customers using IPI’s tool will see a reduction in the ID&V process from the UK market average of 38 seconds to as little as 5 seconds, with the process fully automated within the inbound call flow.
“The ID&V process is a necessary part of every call into the contact centre, however, it can be a cause of great friction in the customer’s journey,” said Steve Murray, Solutions Director at IPI. “Our upgraded ID Me suite – now using Aculab’s VoiSentry voice biometrics system – smooths out this process, speeding up the identification process and reducing the agent’s call handling time, adding additional security and assurance into the verification process.”
Traditional ID&V processes use knowledge-based authentication – asking the customer a series of questions to positively identify them. By focusing on a customer’s unique voiceprint, IPI’s revamped solution will provide the highest level of security to contact centres, whilst enabling them to reduce costs and improve the customer experience. End-users will also benefit from a faster and more natural ID&V process, all streamlining the customer journey. Existing IPI ID Me customers can upgrade their solutions to take advantage of the new technology.
“When we created our voice biometric system, we set out to make this advanced technology – usually the reserve of large-scale, big-budget contact centres – available to the mid-market contact centre. VoiSentry does just that,” said Alan Pound, Founder and CTO at Aculab. “IPI is a great partner for Aculab, having both the in-house expertise and the right product-set to get the most out of our technology, and to ultimately deliver the best solution to their customers.”
About IPI:
IPI is focused on creating intelligent contact centre solutions that deliver exceptional customer experiences. Founded in 2001, the company has more than 300 customers and support more than four million transactions and 55,000 agents every day.
IPI partners with the industry’s leading vendors – including Avaya, Blue Prism, CX Company, Gamma, Genesys, Microsoft, Teleopti, Verint and VMWare – to provide a complete suite of contact centre solutions, available in the cloud, on-premise, or as a managed service. These bespoke solutions cover every component of the contact centre – from call routing, unified communications, networking and security, right up to emerging technologies, such as AI chatbots and Robotic Process Automation. It also offers a range of professional services and devOps support, delivered by its highly accredited team of contact centre experts.
Headquartered in Reading, UK, IPI also has offices in London and Manchester, as well as in the Philippines. Contact us here.
About Aculab:
Aculab is an innovative company that offers deployment proven technology for any telecoms related application. Its advanced speech and enabling technologies serve the evolving needs of automated and interactive systems, whether on-premise, data centre hosted, or cloud-based.
Over 1000 customers in more than 80 countries worldwide, including developers, integrators, solutions providers, and telcos have adopted Aculab’s technology for a wide variety of business-critical services and solutions.
Aculab offers development APIs for voice, speech, data, fax and SMS, on hardware, software and cloud-based platforms, giving a choice between capital investment and cost-effective, ‘pay as you go’ alternatives.
Headquartered in Milton Keynes, UK, Aculab also has an office in Norwood, MA, USA.
IPI media contacts
Eleri Boyesen/Jacqueline Booker
Eleven Hundred Agency
T: +44 (0) 20 7688 5202
E: eleri.boyesen@elevenhundredagency.com / jacqueline.booker@elevenhundredagency.com
Aculab media contact
Shakila Aziz
Aculab
T: +44 (0) 1908 273 811
E: shakila.aziz@aculab.com
Stephen is IPI’s CX (Customer Experience) Solutions Director, with responsibility across product, commercial and development functions. A CX expert and technologist with over 20 years’ experience, Stephen has worked both partner and vendor side at some of Europe’s biggest contact centre integrators and at the world’s largest workforce optimisation and analytics vendor. His focus has been on pioneering the development of AI, self-service and compliance technologies for the contact centre space and he was recently awarded a patent for the co-invention of a revolutionary fraud prevention tool for contact centres. Passionate about helping organisations realise the promise that technology makes, he is a regular contributor and speaker at CX and contact centre events around the world.
