India Airtel Deploys Tender

Bharti Airtel Indias leading telecommunications service provider today announced that it has built an AI-based solution in collaboration with NVIDIA which will improve the overall customer experience for all in-bound calls to its contact center.Airtel contact center operations are amongst the busiest in the world servicing 360 million customers and handling 100 million calls annually. Delivering a high quality experience to consumers is a critical priority. However at this scale manual solutions to audit the contact center agents did not deliver.Today Airtel runs automated speech recognition algorithm on 84 of its calls coming into its contact centers. This helps Airtel identify areas of improvement for the agent when they interact with the consumers leading to better customer experience. For example if an agent keeps a consumer on hold for a long time Airtel would be able to detect this and make necessary corrections to reduce hold time. Delivering these insights at the scale of Airtel is typically very expensive due to the heavy compute requirements.The technology that enables this is automated speech recognition. In order to develop this specialized speech application Airtel leveraged the NVIDIANeMo conversational AI toolkit and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server a multi-framework inference serving software supported in the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite. NVIDIAs advanced software and Airtels deep learning-based automatic speech recognition ASR models allow Airtel to accurately interpret language and make practical changes to its operations to serve agents and consumers better delivering output at 30 of the typical computing cost. This technology also runs on a much lower carbon footprint making it better for the environment through lower Green House Gas GHG emissions.Speaking about the engagement Adarsh Nair CEO of Airtel Digital said We are thrilled to be working with NVIDIA to build cutting-edge solutions that allow us to serve our customers better. AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we do business and we are confident that this shall help us push the boundaries of innovation in the industry.AI-powered speech analytics is helping human agents improve customer service and satisfaction said Vishal Dhupar Managing Director of South Asia at NVIDIA. With NVIDIA AI software Airtel is boosting call center operations while growing efficiency and saving costs.Airtel considers its collaboration with NVIDIA an exciting step forward in the use of AI in the telecommunications industry one that shall have a significant impact on the way companies leverage technology to serve customers. Airtel is aggressively pursuing next-generation technologies such as AI and ML across multiple facets of its operations. For example AI and ML is currently being leveraged in the network teams for efficient deployment of towers and in the Wynk music service to drive personalization.