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Manar Alazma

Abhishek Rohatgi

Eduardo Olvera

Flaviu Gelu Negrean

Dinesh Samtani

Manpreet Singh

There is provided a method that includes obtaining data that describes (a) a situation, (b) a gesture for a response to the situation, (c) a prompt to accompany the response, and (d) a gestural annotation for the response, and utilizing a conversational machine learning technique to train a natural language understanding (NLU) model to address the situation, based on the data.

Gestural prompting based on conversational artificial intelligence

An ambient listening system, includes: an ambient device configure to listen to a conversation between a customer and a sales agent regarding at least one of a desired service and a desired product, and generate an audio stream of the conversation and a unique identifier for the customer; a voice biometrics service module configure to perform at least one of i) identification of the customer based on the audio stream, and ii) voiceprint enrollment of the customer's voice based on the audio stream and the unique identifier for the customer; a business logic module configured to generate at least one business logic output based on at least one of customer's intent and entity extracted from the audio stream; and an automation platform configured to automate, based on the business logic output, the sales agent's workflow related to at least one of customer record, the desired service and the desired product.

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