Speech analytics

Speech analytics automates analysis of recorded or live customer calls. It uses speech-to-text transcription combined with natural language processing to extract keywords, topics, and sentiment. Many systems also measure acoustic signals such as silence, talk-over, and speaking pace, to flag stress or disengagement that word choice alone would miss. Real-time speech analytics prompts agents mid-call and raises live compliance flags. Post-call analysis surfaces trends and root causes across a larger call sample. Standard uses include detecting required compliance phrases, categorizing contact reasons, and feeding evidence into quality assurance scoring.

Speech analytics automates analysis of recorded or live customer calls. It uses speech-to-text transcription combined with natural language processing to extract keywords, topics, and sentiment. Many systems also measure acoustic signals such as silence, talk-over, and speaking pace, to flag stress or disengagement that word choice alone would miss. Real-time speech analytics prompts agents mid-call and raises live compliance flags. Post-call analysis surfaces trends and root causes across a larger call sample. Standard uses include detecting required compliance phrases, categorizing contact reasons, and feeding evidence into quality assurance scoring.

Related terms

Interaction analytics

Interaction analytics is the analysis of full conversation transcripts to surface demand drivers, friction, and risk across every contact rather than a sampled few. Because it reads what customers actually said, it identifies emerging issues that structured ticket fields and survey scores are too coarse to reveal.

Sentiment analysis

Sentiment analysis scores the emotional tone of a conversation to flag risk and measure experience without waiting for a survey response. Applied across every contact rather than a sampled few, it covers the large majority of customers who never complete a satisfaction survey at all.

Quality assurance

Quality assurance is the structured review of conversations against a scorecard, applied to human agents and AI agents alike. Traditional QA samples a handful of conversations per agent each month; automated QA scores every conversation, which changes the exercise from spot-checking into actual measurement.

Text analytics

Text analytics automates the process of extracting structure and meaning from unstructured written feedback: support tickets, chat transcripts, survey verbatims, reviews, and social posts. Core techniques include classifying text into predefined topic taxonomies, extracting named entities such as products, features, and locations, modeling topics to surface unlabeled themes, and tagging a sentiment score to gauge tone. The practical output is a count of how often each issue appears and how that frequency trends over time. Results are only as useful as the underlying taxonomy: a vague or inconsistent category structure produces noisy, hard-to-action data. OnClarity’s Voice of Customer applies these techniques across feedback aggregated from 100+ sources.

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