Radish Systems: The ChoiceView Company

In times of social isolation, it’s imperative that communications be clear and accurate. Personal assistance is more important than ever. Voice-only phone calls can be difficult to understand, confusing, and frustrating.

ChoiceView® is ideally suited for COVID-19 hotlines and other telehealth services where visual materials — including forms to fill out and buttons for approval — need to be shared with patients during a phone call. Hotlines come in two arrangements: answered by an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system or answered by a person. ChoiceView addresses both cases by delivering visual materials to callers as part of the regular phone call. The result is improved efficiency and information comprehension. ChoiceView allows users to understand up to 6X better than voice only. It’s been called “a revolutionary technology that will have great impact on telehealth and other use cases!”

A phone call is familiar to everyone and doesn’t require setup or training. Most COVID-19 hotlines, for example, are accessed by a regular phone call. ChoiceView starts with the familiarity of a phone call and adds a visual dimension. It fills the gap between a basic phone call and a video teleconference. It doesn’t need a mobile app, so it works with first-time callers. It preserves voice quality without needing a high-bandwidth connection. It’s inherently compatible with business phone systems and voice platforms such as Amazon Connect, Twilio, Bandwidth, and Avaya.

ChoiceView Agent is the app used by doctors, hotline staff, and help desk personnel. It’s a pure web app that runs in a browser. There’s nothing to install and no system integration required. The ChoiceView Agent dashboard is preloaded with a visual library for the designated use case — for example, COVID-19 instructions and charts. It allows virtually any visual information available on the sender’s screen to be shared with the caller by click, drag-and-drop, or copy-and-paste. The caller sees the results and can save them for later, all while talking on the same phone call without using a mobile app.

ChoiceView Visual IVRs solve the problem of trying to convey complex COVID-19 information to users by voice ony. With ChoiceView, a generic phone call to an IVR can now include visual menus and visual responses in addition to voice prompts. Radish provides such visual IVRs in its product line. Alternatively, companies themselves can build ChoiceView directly into their own IVRs using the ChoiceView REST API. In the case of Amazon Connect, the ChoiceView REST API is packaged as a ChoiceView Lambda function, allowing developers to easily add ChoiceView visual capabilities through Amazon’s contact flow editor. Amazon estimates that developers already familiar with Amazon Connect can get up and running with ChoiceView in 5 minutes.

See how it works. This example illustrates a ChoiceView Virtual Agent answering the call with subsequent transfer to a nurse. A patient can also reach a nurse directly.

Learn more about ChoiceView products for hotlines and see how ChoiceView is dramatically and easily enhancing customer engagement. “Now I see what you’re talking about!”™

Dr. Richard A. Davis, CTO

The recently launched addition of ChoiceView® to Amazon Connect’s cloud-based, self-service contact center platform represents an achievement and milestone of epic proportions for Radish Systems. ChoiceView as an AWS Lambda function being accessible in Amazon Connect’s contact flows means that current and prospective clients now have unprecedented access to “best in class” visual engagement technology. This game-changing value proposition includes an AI-driven methodology that allows contact centers to engage and enable smartphone and phone/browser callers with the 3-Dimensional ability to talk, touch, and SEE their way through web based menus, content, graphics, and videos, with in-context escalation to a smart virtual agent and/or a live agent when deemed appropriate by the enterprise.

The ability to add comprehensive AI-driven multimedia capability to an existing contact center infrastructure within minutes (in some cases) and within the context of a 14-day free trial will be hard for many enterprises to fathom initially. In customary fashion, Amazon (see Amazon Web Services, Alexa, PillPack, Haven, Whole Foods, Amazon Care, etc.) has quietly put themselves in a position to obliterate currently held paradigms about how to implement and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of contact center engagements. Businesses can now move aggressively forward virtually risk-free with their AI-enabled, chatbot-driven, 3-D engagement aspirations, and implement use cases that include customer support activities, patient engagement, complex information sharing, coaching and a myriad of others.

Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that this solution is extraordinarily financially and technically accessible to any enterprise, large or small. The following list of benefits is long, unimaginably tantalizing, and most importantly, real:

• Ability to try before you buy
• No upfront payments or long-term commitments
• Pay-as-you-go pricing
• No hardware or software to install
• No infrastructure to manage
• No expensive maintenance, upgrades, or downtime
• No need for extensive provisioning and maintenance resources
• AI-enabled speech analytics, recognition, and natural language processing
• Self-service graphical interface that enables non-technical users to design contact flows, manage agents, and track performance metrics
• Open platform that is easy to integrate with popular CRM solutions and custom solutions (or, of course, the AWS platform)
• Amazon RDS to store, access, and lifecycle session recordings
• Ready access to other Amazon Connect Integrations as well as AWS-validated popular services and solutions from AWS Partners, such as Radish Systems

With all of these seemingly implausible features and benefits in mind, it becomes easy to make the case that ChoiceView for Amazon Connect is representative of a ground-breaking, paradigm-shifting, risk-free way for enterprises to achieve the goals of decreasing contact center costs while improving customer experience, engagement, access, and satisfaction. With virtually no barriers to entry, Amazon Connect has quietly ushered in ready access to a brave new world for contact centers — that doesn’t even require bravery to enter.

So… about that “Matrix” reference in the title. Hyperbole, as it relates to Amazon Connect, is absolutely justified! For many contact centers, it will be just like The Matrix was for our hero Neo in the beginning — very difficult to comprehend and believe. The good news is that the cloud-based, self-service contact center solution is already living up to the hype. A number of forward-thinking, nimble enterprises like ChartSpan, Capital One, Intuit, Dow Jones, and axialHealthcare are already taking advantage of Amazon Connect solutions to save millions of dollars while also significantly improving C-Sat scores.

As we gear up for the ambitious ride that will be the fourth installment of The Matrix it should soon be comforting to know that we can now make sure Neo is completely satisfied and empowered with the service he receives from the Amazon Connect enabled Resistance contact center on Zion. When he calls to engage with Morpheus (his favorite chatbot) and uses ChoiceView to gain access to the Construct in order to upgrade his training, we can rest assured that we will gain control of the machines and foster in a new era of prosperity… just in time for the fifth installment.

Victor Morrison, Business Development Director

ChoiceView® is the easiest and fastest way to create true visual IVRs and visual phonebots in Amazon Connect!

Radish’s patented ChoiceView technology is now available to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) development community. ChoiceView transforms ordinary calls to businesses and organizations into ‘voice with visual’ calls. With ChoiceView for Amazon Connect, businesses and Amazon developers can easily create and scale visual IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems and visual phonebots that leverage all the AI and Natural Language Processing power of Amazon Connect plus all the visual power of ChoiceView.

No separate server needs to be setup or configured. Just include ChoiceView directly in an Amazon Connect contact flow and you’re ready to go. Amazon estimates that developers already familiar with Amazon Connect can get up and running with ChoiceView in 5 minutes.

ChoiceView addresses many different use cases involving customer support, patients communicating with doctors, and any phone call involving complex information transfer. ChoiceView supports both intelligent virtual agents and live agents in contact centers. Learn more about ChoiceView for Amazon Connect.

Radish received a grant from AWS to develop ChoiceView as an AWS Lambda function accessible in Amazon Connect contact flows. With ChoiceView, the voice-only Amazon Connect service becomes a multimedia platform that allows callers with a smartphone — or virtually any phone and browser combination — to interact with visual live agents and visually enhanced virtual agents. Callers don’t have to install a mobile app, or preregister, or set up a profile in advance. See the full media release at PRWeb.