Customer Sentiment Prediction via Voice Characteristic Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current customer service systems lack the ability to provide personalized experiences due to the absence of real-time customer sentiment analysis, which can lead to inadequate responses to customers' emotional states and previous interactions, resulting in inconsistent service quality.

Innovation Solution

A system that utilizes processors and memory devices to generate customer sentiment estimates based on customer and session information, including detected voice characteristics, and transmits these estimates to customer service terminals for real-time display and action.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If real-time customer sentiment analysis is implemented, then service quality and customer satisfaction are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments customer sentiment analysis into distinct components: historical interaction analysis, real-time voice characteristic detection, and sentiment estimation. Each component processes specific data types independently before integrating results, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive analysis capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary sentiment estimation system that bridges raw customer data (historical interactions, voice characteristics) and customer service delivery. This intermediary layer processes and synthesizes multiple data sources into unified sentiment estimates, simplifying the integration complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive customer information and historical interactions are analyzed, then customer sentiment estimation accuracy is improved, but information processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesentiment estimation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of customer historical interactions and maintains pre-processed customer profiles before actual service encounters. By pre-computing and storing relevant historical data in structured formats, the system reduces real-time processing requirements while maintaining comprehensive analysis capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously updates and maintains customer sentiment profiles as new interaction data becomes available. This continuous processing approach allows the system to accumulate insights over time without requiring intensive batch processing, balancing accuracy with processing efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Measurement precision

If real-time voice characteristic detection is implemented during customer calls, then customer emotional state assessment is improved, but system processing load and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemotional state assessmentVSAvoidsystem processing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements partial voice characteristic detection by focusing on specific, high-impact vocal indicators (tone, pitch, speech rate) rather than analyzing all possible acoustic features. This selective approach provides sufficient emotional state assessment while reducing processing requirements compared to comprehensive voice analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10880435B2Systems and methods for customer sentiment prediction and depiction
Publication Date: 2020.12.29 CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC
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AI summary

A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for providing customer sentiment depiction. The system may receive customer information and session information and generate a customer sentiment estimate. The system may then receive an indication of a detected customer voice characteristic and generate an updated customer sentiment estimate that may be transmitted to a customer service terminal for display.