What is an Interaction?
An interaction is the communication between a customer and the PureEngage Cloud platform.
An interaction can consist of multiple segments, since the call can be transferred from the IVR to one or more agents.
Speech Analytics capabilities are only available on the following segments in an interaction:
- Audio: An agent-customer interaction from an audio-based communication channel (phone call).
An interaction can include the following information:
Meta Data
Meta data refers to the data that is attached and associated with an interaction while the call is routed through the contact center. This information is available in the SpeechMiner UI and can be used in categorizing interactions. Meta data is stored at the interaction level, not the segment level.
Event
An event occurs when Speech Analytics identifies a topic in an interaction. A topic is a collection of phrases that Speech Analytics recognizes in the audio when analyzing interactions.
For example, if the "can offer you a loan" phrase associated with the Loan Offer topic is identified, the start of the event is "can" and the end of the event is "loan".
Speech Analytics can also identify non-linguistic events. Non-linguistic events are sounds other than speech (for example, a dial tone, silence, music or noise, key press and so on).
An event is indicated by a numbered icon in the Media Player and within the interaction's transcript. You can view details about each event by placing your mouse over the event icon. In addition, each event has a start time, end time, a name and a type. For additional information, see Interaction Events.
Segment
A segment is created when a customer is transferred during an agent-customer audio interaction. If an interaction includes 4 segments, the customer was transferred 4 times.
For more information about segments, see: Working with the Search Results Grid.
Comment
Comments are added to interactions to express a thought about the interaction. A comment can be general or associated with a specific time during the interaction.
User comments are indicated by icons above the audio graph in the Media Player and within the interaction transcript.
There are three types of comments:
Good 
: Indicates a positive comment.
Bad 
: Indicates a negative comment.
Neutral 
: Indicates an unbiased comment.
For more information about how to add a comment to an interaction, see: Interaction Comments.
Transcript
An interaction transcript is a textual representation of the agent-customer interaction.
For more information about how to work with an interaction transcript, see: Interaction Transcript.