KnowledgeShift Launches New Speech to Text Conversation Manager

KnowledgeShift hosted a product launch event in their Chicago office Wednesday evening to demonstrate their new Speech to Text Conversation Management Portal.

2012-11-15

CHICAGO, IL, November 15, 2012 (Press-News.org) This new speech to text application is an add on feature to the Mobi-RolePlay conversation simulator KnowledgeShift has had deployed now for four years.

"Our larger enterprise clients wanted an easier way to measure how well employees performed in the role-play simulator," states Nancy Munro CEO. "The speech to text portal allows us to build keyword search dictionaries to each role-play that will calculate a score for each simulation based upon keywords used in the simulator. The portal will allow managers to easily filter simulation results to drill down to the simulation results with the lower scores to manage feedback properly."

Mobi-RolePlay has been used by organizations for sales training, interviewing skills, screening job candidates, negotiations, call centers and replacement for mystery shoppers.

"With the new keyword and speech translation capabilities, we are seeing how this application can be used as a way for companies to gather analytics around what we call verbal transactions, and measure how effectively they are reinforcing the brand and leveraging communications for long-term growth."

KnowledgeShift is a technology training firm specializing in development of role-playing and simulated conversations for employee development. For further information, please contact us as (630) 221-8759.

Website: http://www.knowledgeshift.net

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