IVR and Text to Speech Speed Questions
Hello everyone, I am hopeful to receive feedback from the general community here in addition to Zoom employees as well. I'll break down my questions into two parts: 1. Within an IVR, we are wanting customers to be able to press option 1, hear some text to speech general information about one of our locations, then give the customer the chance to press star for replay the message or press one to return to the main menu of the IVR. In testing this, I have Auto Receptionist 1 (AR1) with an IVR (IVR1.) Option 1 of IVR1 being the option for general information. I ended up creating a second auto receptionist (AR2) with it's own IVR (IVR2) and when a customer presses option 1 in IVR1 it sends the call to AR2 IVR2. Within IVR 2, I have a text to speech IVR main menu audio file play the general information message with customers being able to press star to replay the message or press 1 to return to the main menu of IVR1. Am I thinking about this the right way or is there an easier way? Initially, I had AR1/IVR1 option 1 point to a call queue, but unless an agent was assigned to the call queue, it would try to route the call to voicemail, so that didn't seem like an effective option. I would really appreciate any feedback here to let us know if we are doing this the right way or if there is an easier and/or "best practice" way to accomplish this. 2. For the text to speech pre-canned voices like "Matthew-Male," the voices themselves are great for being robotic, but they speak too fast and I won't be able to use them like that because our customers will not be able to understand them speaking so quickly. Is there some sort of logic or way to slow down the voices so that those hard of hearing or the elderly will be able to understand them easier? Really looking forward to hearing what people have to say here, so thanks in advance for any feedback on these two topics. Thanks! Jason
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