About Talkdesk
Talkdesk is a cloud contact center vendor that combines contact center as a service for human agents with what it calls customer experience automation for AI. Its message is a hybrid workforce in which people focus on judgment and empathy while AI agents carry out routine work from start to finish.
The platform lets organizations compose, deploy and orchestrate specialized AI agents, reuse skills across the customer journey and define goals, policies and constraints that the agents work within. Example use cases include appointments and directions, order status and tracking, proactive travel notifications and card status and authorization. Industry-specific pre-trained agents and a data cloud support domain-aware decisions. Talkdesk is proprietary and delivered as a hosted service. Visitors can get started or explore use cases, and a pricing page describes the CXA offering.
Key features
- Cloud contact center for human agents
- Specialized AI agents for customer tasks
- Reusable agent skills
- Industry-specific pre-trained agents
- Goal and policy based agent control
Good fit for
- →Automating order status and appointment calls
- →Blending human and AI agents in a contact center
- Tags
- contact-center
- ccaas
- customer-support
- ai-agents
- cx-automation
- voice
- saas
Talkdesk: questions and answers
- What is Talkdesk used for?
- Talkdesk is a cloud contact center platform that adds AI agents for customer experience automation alongside conventional contact center software. It is a good fit for automating order status and appointment calls, and blending human and AI agents in a contact center.
- How much does Talkdesk cost?
- Paid plans for Talkdesk start at $85 per seat per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.
- Is Talkdesk open source?
- No. Talkdesk is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Customer Support category, open-source options include Request Tracker, Chatwoot and UVdesk.
- What are some alternatives to Talkdesk?
- Talkdesk competes with Five9, Genesys Cloud and NICE CXone.
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