Five9 Launches Five9 Intelligent Virtual Assistant

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[{"type":"text","content":" SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nFive9, Inc (NASDAQ: FIVN) a leading provider of the intelligent cloud contact center, announced today the general availability of Five9 Virtual Assistant, a best-in-class Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA), powered by Inference, that leverages conversational-AI to automate manual tasks and answer common questions in the contact center. Five9 Virtual Assistant delivers engaging conversational experiences for organizations which need both greater efficiency and a more personal, human element in their approach to customer care.\n\n\n“We are proud to partner with Five9 to deliver Inference-powered IVAs to Five9 customers,” said Callan Schebella, Chief Executive Officer at Inference Solutions. “The integration of our solution enables organizations to provide advanced self-service in more than one hundred languages and pass context from those interactions to live contact center agents so that a conversation can continue seamlessly if it needs to escalate.”\n\n\nIn recent weeks, various organizations, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, have been experiencing an increase in call volumes in both inbound and outbound communication. Five9 Virtual Assistant can help alleviate this problem by enabling an AI-driven voice assistant to provide a natural conversational response to customer inquiries, such as scheduling appointments, social distancing policy and updating mailing addresses, quickly and efficiently resolving common issues in an empathetic manner.\n\n\n“Virtual assistants are rapidly becoming a part of everyday life as many people use IVAs, such as Siri or Alexa, to look up information or take specific actions,” said Anand Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President, Product Management at Five9. “We are now seeing this trend accelerate during COVID-19 with consumers seeking customer service solutions without having to speak to an agent or endure long wait times. Five9 is excited to announce our latest offering that utilizes AI to deliver the next generation of self-service.”\n\n\nFive9 Virtual Assistant capabilities include:\n\n\n\nHuman-like speech using WaveNet to offer hundreds of different text-to-speech voices across 17 languages.\n\n\nSupport of the most advanced conversational AI technologies from companies like Google, IBM, and Microsoft.\n\n\nNo-code/low-code solution to man...

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