Omilia Voice Biometrics

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Is for administrators. If you're an agent, see the online help page for using Omilia Voice Biometrics in MAX.
Is about Omilia Voice Biometrics, an agent assist application. CXone also supports Omilia text virtual agents.

Omilia Voice Biometrics allows you to authenticate contacts in real time as they speak with an IVR Automated phone menu that allows callers to interact through voice commands, key inputs, or both, to obtain information, route an inbound voice call, or both. or a live agent. Omilia uses voiceprints to authenticate contacts over the phone. Every person has a unique voiceprint, just as they have unique fingerprints. It only takes 0.5 to 3 seconds of normal, conversational speech for Omilia to determine if the caller is who they claim to be.

Contacts must enroll to use voice biometrics for authentication on future calls. This establishes their baseline voiceprint. It also gives your organization permission to use their voiceprint for authentication. The enrollment process only requires 10-20 seconds of natural conversation. Omilia can identify a voiceprint no matter what language is being spoken.

Omilia Voice Biometrics is a product from Omilia, an industry leader in conversational AI solutions. Omilia Voice Biometrics integrates with CXone using Studio scripts and Agent Assist Hub.

Prerequisites

Before you can set up Omilia to work with CXone, you must have:

An Omilia Cloud Platform account.
At least one Voice Biometric profile. You can create these in the Omilia Cloud Platform Console.

Components of an Integration

The integration of Omilia into CXone involves the following components:

CXone: CXone must be configured to use the voice channels A way for contacts to interact with agents or bots. A channel can be voice, email, chat, social media, and so on. you want to use with the integration.
Agent Assist Hub in CXone: Agent Assist Hub holds the configuration information for connecting to your agent assist provider.
Studio scripts: You need at least one script that includes the Agent Assist action. The action is the connection between CXone and your Omilia agent assist application. If you don't have Studio, you can download and install it.
Omilia : A connection to Omilia Voice Biometrics is automatically created when you set up the integration in CXone.
Agent application: This is the client that your agents use to handle contacts.

Custom Scripting Requirements

Integrating an agent assist A software application that provides context-specific help to the agent. application requires custom scripting. Before beginning the integration you should know:

Which scripts you want to add the agent assist application into. You can modify existing scripts or create new ones. You may need to add the application to more than one script. For example, you need different scripts for inbound and outbound phone interactions.
Where the Agent Assist Studio action Performs a process within a Studio script, such as collecting customer data, playing a message or music, or routing a contact to an agent. must be placed in your script flow.
The configuration requirements specific to the application you're using. The app in Agent Assist Hub needs to be configured. The actions in your Studio scripts must also be configured. Refer to the online help for each action for more information.
What parameters the script needs to send to the agent assist provider, if any.
How to complete the script after adding the Agent Assist action. You may need to:
- Add initialization snippets to the script using Snippet actions. You can do this to customize your agent assist application.
- Reconfigure the action connectors to ensure proper contact flow and correct any potential errors.
- Complete any additional scripting and test the script.

If you need assistance with scripting in Studio, contact your CXone Account Representative, see the Technical Reference Guide section in the Studio online help, or visit the NICE CXone Community site.

Contact Enrollment

Before Omilia Voice Biometrics can verify the identity of contacts, each contact must enroll. This is how the contact gives your organization permission to record their voice and use it for authentication. Contacts are enrolled by associating their voiceprint with the phone number they're calling from (ANI Also known as caller ID. Listed phone number of an incoming voice call.) and a user ID, which can be an account number.

User IDs must be unique for each contact. ANIs can have more than one user associated with them. You can use any number or string as the user ID. For example, you can use the contact's account number. However, if an account can have more than one person on it who might call in, you need to use something else as the user ID with Omilia.

The flow of enrollment is:

At the start of a call, Omilia checks for the ANI or user ID in the voice biometrics profile. The voice biometrics profile is designated in the Omilia app that's assigned to the Agent Assist action in the script.
If a voiceprint profile exists, Omilia verifies the contact.
If a profile isn't found for the ANI, the agent assist panel displays the enrollment form.
The agent discusses it with the contact, then clicks Opt Out or Enroll. If the contact wants to enroll, the agent must enter a unique user ID before clicking Enroll.
For enrollment, a short recording of the contact's voice is saved. Enrollment requires 10-20 seconds of natural, conversational speech. The contact doesn't need to say specific words for the recording.
When the call ends, the script sends either the recording or the opt-out request to Omilia. Omilia creates the voiceprint profile for the contact. If the contact opted out, the profile indicates that they have opted out.

Enrollment is per ANI. If a contact calls from a different phone number, they won't be authenticated. If they want to be authenticated from both numbers, they must enroll again. If more than one user is registered for the ANI,

You can view all of the enrolled contacts in the Voice Biometrics Review section of the Omilia Cloud Platform Console. The Enrollments page also shows contacts who have opted out of voice authentication. For more information about Voice Biometrics Review, refer to the Omilia Cloud Platform documentation.

Agent Experience with Omilia

By default, agents see the results of Omilia voice verification on the agent assist panel. When you use the custom URL provided during the implementation process, the results appear on a page that comes directly from Omilia.

Omilia works with MAX. Online help about using Omilia is available for agents who use MAX.

When Omilia verifies the identity of a contact at the start of a new call, it displays the result on the agent assist panel. An example of this is shown in the following image.