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The Quest for Sound Quality

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Overview With businesses placing increased pressure on call centers to provide their customers with superior and seamless interaction, the importance of working in an exceptional sound environment is greater than ever before. Call center agents need to be able to hear customers clearly so they make fewer mistakes. Customers need to feel like they are being heard. And when it comes to choosing headset technology, businesses no longer have the luxury of being able to gamble with spurious claims of sound quality. Today, they need to be sure. Fortunately, superior sound quality is not a relative term - it is an absolute, verifiable through the science of acoustics and, more simply, through the use of the human ear.

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Publisher	Plantronics	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	VoIP - IP Telephony, Voice Recognition, Call Center - Contact

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