Tuesday, June 24, 2025

AI for Call Centers

https://archive.is/2025.06.22-203816/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/21/india-ai-bpo-call-centers/


https://archive.is/CKWi0

In 2023, Kumar’s employer, the Paris-based outsourcing giant Teleperformance, rolled out an accent-altering software at his office in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi. In real time, the AI smooths out Kumar’s accent — and those of at least 42,000 other Indian call center agents — making their speech more understandable to American clients on the other end of the line.
“Now the customer doesn’t know where I am located,” Kumar said. “If it makes the caller happy, it makes me happy, too.”

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