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Crafting Human-Like Real-Time Voice Chatbots: A Comprehensive Developer’s Guide

By Kevin Gilper | Jan 20, 2025

Introduction Human conversations are fluid, spontaneous, and laden with subtle social cues. By contrast, AI voice chatbots often sound overly polished and scripted, risking a user perception of “robotic” interactions. This guide outlines approaches for developers to bridge that gap, leveraging the natural “imperfections” of human speech-such as filler words, interruptions, and emotional inflections-to…

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AI Decision-Making in Business: A Practical Guide for Leaders

By Peter Carlyle | Jan 7, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how companies operate, creating opportunities for faster decisions, cost savings, and new sources of growth. At the same time, AI can feel intimidating, especially when it comes to “agentic” systems-tools that can make decisions on their own or with minimal human supervision. This guide aims to show…

OvatioComply: Securing Enterprise AI While Enhancing Compliance

By Peter Carlyle | Dec 3, 2024

OvatioComply: Securing Enterprise AI While Enhancing Compliance When we designed OvatioComply, we focused on a simple truth: enterprises shouldn’t have to choose between AI innovation and regulatory compliance. More importantly, we recognized that AI could strengthen existing compliance and audit processes rather than complicate them. Financial analysts shouldn’t hesitate before using AI to detect fraud…

OvatioIQ: Transform Your Organization’s Knowledge into Strategic Insights

By Peter Carlyle | Nov 12, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, the true value of an organization’s information lies not just in storing documents, but in understanding their interconnections and extracting actionable insights. OvatioIQ is a groundbreaking knowledge management platform that transforms how organizations discover, access, and leverage their collective knowledge through intelligent conversations and visual insights. From Information Silos to…

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AI Agents: The Power of Digital Senses in Business Automation

By Peter Carlyle | Oct 28, 2024

The artificial intelligence landscape has reached a pivotal moment. AI agents have evolved beyond simple automation tools, gaining abilities that were once uniquely human: seeing, hearing, speaking, writing, and reasoning. This convergence of capabilities has transformed AI agents from basic automation tools into sophisticated digital workers that can truly understand and interact with their environment.…

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Leveraging AI for Legacy System Integration: Unlocking Value in the Modern Enterprise

By Peter Carlyle | Oct 21, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, many enterprises find themselves at a crossroads between legacy systems and modern technology demands. This article explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to create APIs for closed systems, offering a strategic solution that balances innovation with existing investments. This approach presents a compelling opportunity to drive digital…

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Balancing Innovation and Practicality in AI Projects: A Guide for IT Leaders

By Peter Carlyle | Oct 15, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at a rapid pace, IT leaders face the challenge of harnessing its innovative potential while ensuring practical, value-driven implementations. Striking the right balance between cutting-edge AI capabilities and practical business solutions is crucial for successful AI adoption. This article provides guidance for IT leaders on how to navigate…

Message Center Update: Forms Integration with Bookings

By Jo Anne Frazier | Feb 23, 2022

Organizations using the Microsoft Bookings app in Teams for virtual visits can now collect information from attendees and be able to securely share it with the staff while maintaining industry specific compliance requirements (such as HIPAA). Microsoft Bookings app in Teams will be integrated with Microsoft 365 Forms to support end to end (Pre-visit) workflows…

What is SharePoint Syntex

By Ovatio Technologies | Oct 1, 2021

What is SharePoint Syntex? Microsoft Syntex is a Microsoft 365 content service that uses machine teaching (Yes, that’s a real thing but more on that topic in a minute!) and AI to optimally organize and safely store your content based on what you want SharePoint to automatically and intelligently understand, extract, protect, classify, and process…

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