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Amazon Connect: Up and Running

By : Jeff Armstrong
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Amazon Connect: Up and Running

By: Jeff Armstrong

Overview of this book

Amazon Connect is a pay-as-you-go cloud contact center solution that powers Amazon’s customer contact system and provides an impressive user experience while reducing costs. Connect's scalability has been especially helpful during COVID-19, helping customers with research, remote work, and other solutions, and has driven adoption rates higher. Amazon Connect: Up and Running will help you develop a foundational understanding of Connect's capabilities and how businesses can effectively estimate the costs and risks associated with migration. Complete with hands-on tutorials, costing profiles, and real-world use cases relating to improving business operations, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you everything you need to get your call center online, interface with critical business systems, and take your customer experience to the next level. As you advance, you'll understand the benefits of using Amazon Connect and cost estimation guidelines for migration and new deployments. Later, the book guides you through creating AI bots, implementing interfaces, and leveraging machine learning for business analytics. By the end of this book, you'll be able to bring a Connect call center online with all its major components and interfaces to significantly reduce personnel overhead and provide your customers with an enhanced user experience (UX).
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Planning
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Section 2: Implementation

Chapter 12: Implementing Contact Lens

Contact Lens is a service that uses existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) services to provide artificial intelligence (AI) sentiment analysis and transcription of your call center's calls. Contact Lens uses the Transcribe and Comprehend services to accomplish this. The Transcribe service is used first, to convert what people are saying on the phone into text that can be more readily processed. From there, Comprehend is used to review that text and determine how the people on the phone feel.

Thankfully, Contact Lens is a solution that is integrated with Amazon Connect. So, unlike the voicemail and analytics solutions, we won't have to deploy it; we will have to just activate it. In this chapter, we will walk through the activation and user permissions needed to view the Contact Lens output. We will cover the following topics in detail:

  • Enabling Contact Lens
  • Assigning user permissions
  • Understanding Contact Lens' capabilities...