Armen Kirakosian remembers the frustrations of his first job as a call center agent nearly 10 years ago: the aggravated customers, the constant searching through menus for information and the notes he ...

Many companies are moving beyond rigid, scripted chatbots toward more natural customer interactions. A new voice AI agent called Leaping AI is part of a movement bringing the call center industry into ...

Call centers have long been front and center in providing customer service and support — in fact, IBIS World estimates that there are 36,787 customer care centers employing 305,000 individuals in the ...

Imagine in the near future, you call a customer service number for a cruise line and are greeted by a highly knowledgeable, smooth-talking artificial intelligence (AI). In a fluid conversation, the AI ...