We don’t go cross country in a covered wagon anymore.
We don’t go to Blockbuster to rent movies.
We don’t use pay phones or paper maps in our cars.
We don’t get film developed, or make mix tapes, or use a dial up modems.
New technologies unlock exciting capabilities. People and businesses adopt these innovations alongside social trends. While not every person or organization is comfortable being an early adopter of new tech, at a certain point the tide shifts and it becomes silly to stick with the old when there is a better way.
Speech recognition and natural language understanding is fundamentally changing the way most of us carry out many of our everyday functions. Voice-First technology allows us to do what we need to do without friction. We speak into our smartphones, we ask Alexa to play music or tell us the weather. We use smart speakers to turn on lights, adjust thermostats, and as an intercom in our homes. Speech-enabled interactions are just more convenient and more accessible to users of all kinds. Talking is the most natural user interface.
Parlance is a Software as a Service company leveraging speech recognition technology to improve the caller experience for hundreds of leading organizations nationwide. Health systems, higher education institutions, and enterprises that rely on Parlance every day to modernize call handling, ease caller effort and reduce operational costs. People with routine requests can get to the person, department, or resource they need without waiting on hold or using a confusing IVR menu. People who need complex support can get it quickly, because live operators are no longer acting like human transfer switches and they’re more available to help callers who need it. Health systems specifically subscribe to Parlance to enable their patients to speak naturally and connect directly when they call on the phone. No long hold times, no confusing menus, no numbers to press on a dial pad.
As a full voice user interface, Parlance enables painless interactions. Old-fashioned IVRs are a major pain point for most customers, employees, and healthcare consumers. When people have to listen closely because options have changed and press numbers that often don’t align with exactly what the caller needs, it’s painful. This is a universally frustrating experience! Our modern automated attendant reduces friction and that’s the best way to increase satisfaction.
Parlance offers speech recognition as a managed service. That means we blend intelligent speech technologies, including Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding to transform your old fashioned IVRs and automated attendants. We learn about your needs, then design and produce automated yet natural interactions with callers, all recorded with a live person’s voice. Once your application is built and live, we manage the solution through continuous updates, directory import automation, manual intervention, and daily 24/7 monitoring. The Parlance application becomes a part of our customer’s infrastructure and changes, grows, and benefits the environment for which it was created. Since 1996, we’ve been transforming caller experiences for customers in healthcare, enterprise and higher education.
Parlance provides not only industry-leading technology, with the latest Nuance recognizer at its very core, but a team of tenured experts who make your system work, take ownership of day-to-day performance, and guarantee ROI. No complicated fees, no extra charges, and no long contracts required. At Parlance you don’t buy software, you subscribe to results.
The power of voice. The future is now.
