SoundHound Says AI Agents Reduce Customer Service Calls by 20%

<p><strong>SANTA CLARA<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; SoundHound AI&comma; a specialist in voice artificial intelligence&comma; and Apivia Courtage&comma; part of AEMA Group&comma; one of the world’s largest mutual and cooperative insurers&comma; announced that their partnership to deploy conversational AI agents has reached a milestone&period; In just under a year&comma; SoundHound’s Amelia AI Agents have supported Apivia Courtage in handling over 100&comma;000 customer calls and reducing the number of inbound queries handled directly by the French wholesale broker’s customer relations team by nearly 20&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>First launched in January 2023&comma; the aim of the partnership was to introduce advanced AI agents to improve customer service while bringing innovation and critical support to Apivia Courtage’s existing customer service employees&period; The insurance group chose the Amelia AI platform &lpar;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cts&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;ct&sol;CT&quest;id&equals;smartlink&amp&semi;url&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;soundhound&period;com&percnt;2Fnewsroom&percnt;2Fpress-releases&percnt;2Fsoundhound-ai-acquires-amelia-significantly-expanding-its-scale-and-reach-in-conversational-ai-across-new-verticals-and-hundreds-of-enterprise-brands&percnt;2F&amp&semi;esheet&equals;54154746&amp&semi;newsitemid&equals;20241121292929&amp&semi;lan&equals;en-US&amp&semi;anchor&equals;since&plus;acquired&plus;by&plus;SoundHound&plus;AI&amp&semi;index&equals;1&amp&semi;md5&equals;a70176d18078bd5a3a37f6d6ff6c2f81" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" shape&equals;"rect">since acquired by SoundHound AI<&sol;a>&rpar; due to its maturity in the enterprise space and the company’s demonstrated ability to build a long term relationship with corporate partners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Throughout 2024&comma; Amelia conversational AI Agents have been successful in helping to field thousands of calls on topics related to medical expense reimbursement &ZeroWidthSpace;&ZeroWidthSpace;and information on insurance guarantee levels&period; As a result&comma; the company has been able to focus its human teams on bringing more value and time to their relationships with brokers and clients&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There’s a consensus between our managers and teams that introducing SoundHound’s Amelia AI agents has improved the quality of their work&comma; giving these employees precious time back to focus on the kinds of tasks that can’t be automated&comma;” <b>said Emmanuelle Nguyen&comma; CEO of Apivia Courtage&period;<&sol;b> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There has even been a perceptible improvement in workplace atmosphere – and all while our customer queries continue to be handled seamlessly&period; This is a textbook case of AI being deployed efficiently and delivering great value to the business it serves&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The AEMA Group&comma; which includes Apivia Courtage&comma; has 11 million policyholders&comma; members and customers&comma; and over 20&comma;000 employees&period; The company works with over 1&comma;600 agencies&comma; and more than 3&comma;900 insurance brokers in France&comma; with a combined revenue of €15&period;6 billion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Projects like this really show the incredible value AI and automation can deliver&comma; not only to our customers&comma; but also to their customers&comma;” <b>said Michael Anderson&comma; EVP of Enterprise at SoundHound AI&period; <&sol;b>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With AI agents managing routine customer questions&comma; Apivia Courtage’s employees are now able to focus on more rewarding and valuable aspects of their work&period; We’re thrilled to support them in delivering thousands of high-quality interactions&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Amelia AI Agents are equipped to handle tasks from end-to-end&comma; optimizing self-service for policyholders while also freeing contact center agents from time-intensive and repetitive requests&period; The technology assists insurance contact center agents with more than 1&comma;000 daily conversations related to claims and policies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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