Real-Time Voice Analytics for Sales Call Guidance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Sales representatives often struggle to effectively engage customers during live calls due to the complexity of dynamic factors, leading to missed opportunities and lost potential customers.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for interpreting real-time voice communications between sales representatives and customers, using analytics to identify voice impressions, create profiles, and generate action plans that include recommended emotion levels and sales scripts, to assist sales representatives during calls.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If real-time voice analysis and action plan generation are implemented to assist sales representatives, then sales effectiveness and customer engagement are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesales effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex sales call assistance function into distinct modules: voice impression identification module, profile creation module, and action plan generation module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the analysis and recommendation process, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable while delivering comprehensive sales support.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-creating customer profiles based on voice impressions before the sales call occurs. This allows the action plan generation to reference existing profiles and make faster, more informed recommendations during the actual call, reducing real-time processing requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of information

If comprehensive voice impression analysis is performed to create detailed customer profiles, then customer understanding and sales outcomes are improved, but data processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer understandingVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs comprehensive voice impression analysis and creates detailed customer profiles in advance, before the sales representative needs to use the information. This preliminary processing allows the system to store analyzed data for rapid retrieval and action plan generation during the actual sales call, reducing real-time processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates simplified copies of customer profiles from comprehensive voice impression data. These profile copies contain the essential extracted features and attributes needed for sales assistance, allowing fast access and processing without requiring the full complexity of the original voice analysis data during sales calls.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Ease of operation

If real-time action plans with emotional recommendations are provided to sales representatives, then customer engagement quality is improved, but the complexity of analyzing emotional patterns increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer engagement qualityVSAvoidemotional pattern analysis
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary profile creation layer that translates complex emotional patterns from voice impressions into simplified profile attributes and recommendations. This intermediary representation makes the emotional data accessible and actionable for sales representatives without requiring them to directly interpret complex emotional patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms emotional patterns from voice impressions into standardized profile parameters and actionable recommendations. By changing the parameter representation from raw emotional data to structured profile attributes with specific recommendations, the system makes emotional analysis results easier to interpret and apply during sales calls.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11381683B2System, device, and method of performing data analytics for advising a sales representative during a voice call
Publication Date: 2022.07.05 SALESBOOST LLC
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AI summary

A system is provided for interpreting real-time voice communications and generating action plan queues to assist a sales representative during a call. The system includes an analytics module configured to identify voice call data between the sales representative and the other party and select voice impressions in the call for analysis. The analytics module further receives the voice impressions and interpret the impressions, associates at least one attribute and at least one value with each voice impression, and creates a conversation profile based on the at least one attribute and the at least one value associated with the voice impressions. The analytics module further determines action plan queues according to the conversation profile and render the action plan queues to the sales representative during the call.