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The AI Whisperer: Enhancing Customer Service – One Conversation at a Time

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April 8, 2025
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The AI Whisperer: Enhancing Customer Service – One Conversation at a Time
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Real-Time Quality Coaching in Customer Service: An AI Revolution

The customer service industry is undergoing a significant transformation powered by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). While chatbots and automation tools streamline workload handling, the newest innovation is AI-driven assistants acting as real-time quality coaches. These tools analyze language, tone, grammar, and relevance to provide agents with instant, actionable advice. This paper explores the current landscape of AI assistants in customer service and the nuanced enhancements they bring to the table, with a focus on the developments at Freshworks.

The Role of AI in Customer Service

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Automation and Efficiency

AI’s role in customer service has evolved from handling basic inquiries through chatbots to taking on complex tasks with real-time coaching. The presence of AI assistants allows human agents to focus on high-priority caseloads by enhancing efficiency and reducing turnaround time.

Real-Time Quality Coaching

At the forefront of this evolution is the integration of AI-powered real-time coaching. These assistants can detect tonal issues, grammatical errors, and relevance in conversation, providing immediate suggestions to improve customer-agent interactions. As noted by Guha, a staff machine learning engineer at Freshworks, features like tone detection and response suggestions are crucial for maintaining quality communication.

Key Features of AI-Powered Coaching

Tone Detection and Response Suggestions

AI assistants are trained to identify negative tones in real-time conversations. By leveraging generative AI processes, responses can be adjusted to be more empathetic and professional. The use of supervised machine learning models, which blend artificial and real data, allows for tighter control over interactions, thus improving the quality of service.

Improved Relevance of Agent Responses

Ensuring the relevance of responses is crucial in avoiding customer frustration and abandonment. AI tools minimize the irrelevance rate by providing contextual suggestions from large language models (LLMs). This feature is essential for customer satisfaction, as it allows agents to keep pace with increasingly knowledgeable customers.

Multi-Language Grammar Correction

Real-time grammar correction utilizes open-source knowledge bases like Grammarly, providing grammatical support in seven major languages. This feature is crucial for non-native English-speaking agents, enhancing communication accuracy and customer satisfaction.

Challenges in Implementation

Real-time AI coaching in customer service is not without its challenges. Key issues include:

  1. Latency in Language Model Calls: Single large language model (LLM) calls can take up to 1.5 seconds, while agents need quicker responses for chat services. An efficient architectural design is crucial to reduce delay.
  2. Data Availability for Western European Languages: Training datasets for many languages are hard to find, complicating model development.
  3. Bias and Fairness: AI systems must be designed to prevent biases, ensuring fair and consistent service.
  4. Cost Management: Building cost-effective models compatible with platforms like Freshworks’ Freddy AI requires substantial upfront investment and optimization.

Methodologies for Enhanced AI Coaching

Freshworks employs a series of methodologies to overcome these challenges. These include using AI to auto-generate training datasets, deploying multi-pass models for tone detection, and ensuring modular architecture for latency reduction. The resulting impact has been profound, with significant reductions in latency and expansion to support 20+ languages.

AI-Coaching Architecture

The AI architecture includes:

  1. First-Pass Detection: Rapid tone detection using multilingual embeddings.
  2. Second-Pass Correction: Fine-tuning based on annotations for accurate tone correction.
  3. Generative Tasks: AI-generated data, especially for grammar and spelling in multiple languages, enhancing model accuracy.

Technical Details

Large Language Models (LLMs)

The integration of LLMs in real-time quality coaching is central to Freshworks’ approach. These models analyze agent-customer interactions on multiple fronts:

  1. Tone Detection: By using a blend of real-world and AI-generated examples, the model identifies and corrects undesirable tones such as sarcasm, defensiveness, or lack of empathy.
  2. Relevance Assessment: LLMs evaluate response relevance based on language alignment with user queries, assigning scores from 1 to 10 for precision.
  3. Multi-Language Support: Utilizing open-source platforms like Grammarly, the system corrects grammar in seven major languages, enhancing global operability.

Machine Learning (ML) Models

Freshworks employs supervised ML models trained with a mix of artificial and real data to fine-tune their AI systems:

  1. Multilingual Embeddings: These are used to enhance model performance across different languages, crucial for maintaining service quality globally.
  2. Training Datasets: AI-generated synthetic data fills the gap where human-written examples fall short, maintaining diversity and originality.

System Design and Latency

Scalability and Efficiency

  1. Low Latency: Single LLM calls average 1.5 seconds, but chat services require under 0.5 seconds for agility. The system architecture minimizes latency by implementing efficient processing models.
  2. Custom Language Models: Facebook’s language model, along with custom models, ensures strong control over language outputs, essential for rapid, reliable responses.
  3. Infrastructure: The optimization is achieved through an 8B parameter model, balancing computational demand with cost-effectiveness.

Feature Integration

  1. AI-Based Annotations: Annotation rules are defined for tone and relevance, allowing the system to provide clear guidelines for good versus bad communication practices.
  2. AI-Generated Training Examples: Including categories like argumentative, defensive, and rude tones, these examples refine agent communication strategies.

Results and Impact

  1. Increased Coverage and Adoption: The real-time coaching system impacts tens of thousands of agents across five regions in the world
  2. Expansion and Language Support: Currently, the system supports 20+ languages with plans for further expansion into new markets.
  3. Operational Efficiency: Customer satisfaction and operational efficiency have improved significantly, with latency reduced by 50%.

These technical underpinnings not only enhance real-time customer interactions but also position AI as an invaluable assistant, guiding agents in delivering superior service quality. As AI continues to progress, its integration into customer service will undoubtedly result in faster and more empathetic assistance, providing a competitive edge in the industry.

The Impact of AI Coaching

The integration of real-time AI coaching has exponentially improved service efficiency, impacting thousands of agents and tens of thousands of customers across regions. By automating quality control, operational efficiency is improved, and potential biases from human oversight are reduced.

Adoption and Expansion

The adoption has seen significant traction, with custom scoring systems being developed and a reduction in latency by 50%, illustrating the scalability of AI-driven solutions in customer service.

Conclusion

AI-powered real-time quality coaching represents a crucial evolution in customer service. By providing agents with immediate insights and recommendations, these tools enhance communication quality and customer satisfaction. Despite implementation challenges, the future of AI in customer service remains promising, with continuous improvements expected in response time, language capabilities, and overall service quality. As AI technology evolves, its role as a subtle yet powerful assistant in customer service is set to become even more integral, ensuring efficient and empathetic customer interactions.

About the Author

Anshuman Guha
Staff Engineer – Data Scientist, Freshworks AI Labs

Anshuman Guha is a leading voice in AI-enhanced customer service, spearheading innovations in tone detection, language modeling, and real-time coaching architecture at Freshworks.

References:

Watch his full talk on YouTube
Read more on Freshworks’ AI blog

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