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AI AMD: What it is and why you need it to drive sales by Ani Mazanashvili | January 4, 2025 |  Business Benefits

AI AMD: What it is and why you need it to drive sales

The call center industry is fast-paced, highly competitive and dependent upon efficiency. Every second wasted on an unanswered call translates to lost time, money and productivity.
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That’s where AI-powered Answering Machine Detection (AMD) comes in. AMD technology is the solution to inefficient call center processes. It detects whether an outgoing call is answered by a real human or an answering machine. Simple, right? As AI continues to advance, AMD is becoming more accurate, reliable, and above all, fast. It reduces wasted time and improves agent productivity by cutting out the downtime of outbound calling. For call centers hoping to get the most out of their outbound campaigns, understanding AI AMD and how it can integrate with CCaaS platforms can be a game-changer.

Key Takeaways

  • What AI AMD Is: Technology that identifies whether an outbound call is answered by a human or an answering machine, using advanced algorithms and machine learning for faster and more accurate detection.
  • Traditional vs AI AMD: Traditional AMD relies on basic signal analysis and audio cues; AI AMD analyzes larger datasets, recognizes subtle speech patterns, and continuously improves detection accuracy.
  • Key Benefits:
    • Time Efficiency: Agents avoid wasted time on voicemails, increasing live call engagement.
    • Better Accuracy: Reduces false positives, ensuring more live connections.
    • Cost Savings: Lower cost per call through efficient use of agent time and resources.
    • Improved Agent Productivity: Frees agents to focus on revenue-generating conversations.
    • Enhanced Customer Experience: Prioritizes live interactions, reducing missed connections and callbacks.
  • Voiso AI AMD Features:
    • Over 95% detection accuracy
    • Up to 30% increased talk time
    • Seamless integration with existing systems
    • Easy scaling across call volumes
    • Continuously updated algorithm for evolving answering systems
  • Why It Matters: AI AMD maximizes efficiency, productivity, and sales in outbound call centers while enhancing customer satisfaction by focusing agents on real interactions.

What is AMD?

Think of AMD like the noise-canceling headphone of your call center – it filters out the background noise of voicemails and automated responses, leaving only the real calls for agents. 

Used mainly by outbound call centers in conjunction with predictive dialers, AMD incorporates signal analysis, waveform detection and machine learning algorithms to identify whether a call has been picked up by a live person or an answering machine. Once the call connects, traditional AMD analyzes every audio cue possible: speech patterns, pauses, tones, specific frequency signals, and anything else can distinguish a human and machine. 

AI-powered AMD takes it a step further. It uses advanced algorithms to dive deeper into a bigger pool of real-time audio patterns. It learns from huge sets of call interaction data by recognizing subtleties in tone, pauses, background noise and speech nuance to predict at a much more accurate level. And the more calls it analyzes, the more it learns – AI enables it to hone its decision-making abilities, resulting in fewer false positives and more live connections. 

AI AMD is the solution to eliminating non-productive calls and maximizing time spent engaging with actual customers.

Benefits of AI-powered AMD in call centers 

AMD offers a wealth of benefits for call centers. Let’s look at the biggest ones: 

#1 Time efficiency

AI AMD filters out any calls that go to voicemail, allowing agents to avoid the wasted time associated with listening to automated messages. AMD’s quick detection of machines means agents spend more time on live calls, increasing their answer rates and significantly boosting the number of meaningful interactions they have per day. 

#2 Better accuracy 

Machine learning algorithms are experts at detecting subtle patterns in audio cues, far beyond the traditional methods. They’re far more accurate at differentiating between human voices and voicemail messages, which reduces instances of false positives, or live calls being mistakenly marked as a machine or vice versa. AI AMD gives agents the best chance at reaching real customers. 

#3 Cost savings 

Thanks to AI AMD’s enhanced call efficiency, cost per call drops significantly. With fewer calls being wasted, call centers can handle more with fewer resources, improving campaign efficiency. It’s a more cost-effective solution for high-volume center and outbound sales teams as it allows for better resource allocation. 

#4 Improved agent productivity

AI AMD frees agents up for more live calls by minimizing time spent on non-productive calls. It allows them to dedicate their time to revenue-generating conversations rather than waiting around for the phone to ring, only to be met with a voicemail system. It directly leads to better engagement rates and more efficiency workflows, which results in higher volumes of sales and customer interactions. 

#5 Better CX 

With agents prioritizing live interactions, customers are less likely to get unwanted callbacks or delayed responses. AI AMD enables agents to focus on actual conversations, creating a smoother journey by cutting out the frustration of missed connections or multiple calls. 

AI-powered AMD by Voiso

Voiso’s custom-built, AI-driven AMD solution offers real-time detection and integrates seamlessly with our powerful call center software. 

With Voiso’s AMD, call centers can benefit from: 

  • Over 95% AMD accuracy. 
  • Increased talk time by up to 30%. 
  • Simple, quick setup and easy integration with your existing systems.
  • Effortless scaling with consistent performance across varying call volumes. 
  • Continuously updated algorithm with improved detection accuracy that easily adapts to new types of answering systems. 

Talk to us today to find out more about Voiso’s AI-powered Answering Machine Detection. 

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