How Empire Today uses conversational AI with Philip Bennett

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Philip Bennett joins us to speak about how Empire Today has been using conversational AI.

Presented by Deepgram

Presented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don’t have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit:

Philip Bennett is the Customer Service Operations Manager at Empire Today, the USA’s largest direct-to-consumer shop-at-home flooring provider. Philip joins us to share case studies on how Empire Today is using conversational AI to improve customer experience and business outcomes. We’ll chat about what’s working, what’s not, and how a ‘traditional’ business can apply emerging technology and fuel its transformation efforts.

00:00 Introduction and welcome Deepgram
Cognigy CX maturity workshop: find out more: https://vux.ai/cognigy
03:44 Introducing Phillip Bennet
10:20 Technology potential
12:49 Where the process started
21:40 Problems found before chat bots
28:10 First experiment with conversational AI tech
37:40 Advice on how to judge success of agent assist AI
44:00 Turning data into chat bots
50:15 Booking appointments live chat v chat bot
53:38 Measuring the impact
56:46 Outro

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A strategic AI advisor who, for the past decade, has helped business leaders and product owners transform customer experience using conversational and generative AI.

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