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What is Voice AI?
Short answer
Voice AI is software that can hold a spoken conversation over the phone, understanding what a caller says and replying with a generated voice.
Voice AI, explained for tree service owners
Voice AI is technology that listens to a caller, understands their words and replies out loud. Some tree services use it for after-hours calls, basic questions, booking and taking messages, often through an AI receptionist. For a tree service owner, the main questions are accuracy, how urgent calls get passed to a person, and whether callers know they are speaking to an automated system. Test it yourself by calling with common requests, such as a fallen tree or a storm damage question. Keep a human path for emergencies. Ask the vendor where call recordings are stored and how long they are kept.
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- IVR (phone menu)
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- large language model (LLM)
A large language model is an AI system trained on huge amounts of text that can read, write and answer questions in everyday language.
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