Your Boston Accent Shouldn’t Stump Conversational AI in Healthcare
In Boston, we tell people to “Pahk yah cah in Havahd Yahd.” Visitors to our city may find the local accent hard to understand. But when we call one of our many outstanding Boston-area hospitals, surely those front door speech recognition systems should be able to understand us, right? Is that a reasonable expectation?
Automatic speech recognition systems (ASRs) are only as successful as what they’re trained to understand. The number of times any proper name appears in speech is far, far less than all the other words in Standard American English. This lack of training data causes problems for the healthcare industry, where 70% of calls contain a name. Doctor names, other provider names, patient names, prescription names, etc. Regional accents further complicate recognition.
Hospitals and clinics are frustrating healthcare consumers when speech recognition systems can’t understand what’s being said. In addition, operators and agents remain overwhelmed with high call volumes. But will AI ever be able to keep up?
At Parlance, our conversational AI solutions help solve this issue for health systems better than any of our competitors. Parlance is THE BEST at named entity recognition! Our proprietary tools and applications surround the technology to improve recognition at hundreds of hospitals and clinics across the nation, while generating the best ROI. With Parlance, your callers will embrace the ease of navigating and your agents will appreciate the deflection of repetitive tasks that take up so much of their time today.
Parlance is an established SaaS company serving more hospitals and clinics than any other conversational AI solution. We guarantee performance and generate the very best ROI for health systems. Our unrivaled expertise and managed service delivery assures proven results with less effort from your team.
Implementing conversational AI and generative IVR (interactive voice response) solutions that can better understand regional accents requires both experience and adaptability. Parlance proprietary applications and time-tested tools have evolved through many generations of speech technology. We know what it takes to meet callers where they are, rather than at the limits of a given ASR engine’s capability. The Parlance solution ensures frictionless experiences for healthcare consumers, so they can quickly access the people, departments, and resources they need.
Since 1996, Parlance has been committed to the idea that callers deserve friction-free, voice-driven access to the right resources inside large enterprises. Our continuous innovation is driven by this mission. Today’s technology offers us the opportunity to elevate the calling experience with conversational AI. Whether you say “Doctor Kumar” or “Doctah Kumah” Parlance connects you to where you want to go.
