Nuance Recognizer as a Service overview

Prerequisites
  • Genesys Cloud CX 1, Genesys Cloud CX 2, Genesys Cloud CX 3, or Genesys Cloud CX 4 license.
  • A valid Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flow subscription. For more information, contact Genesys Cloud Sales.
  • If you have a Nuance Mix account, the Nuance OAuth Client ID and Client secret credentials. For more information, see the Nuance Mix documentation.
  • If you do not have a Nuance Mix account, complete one of the following steps:
    • Based on your preferred Nuance region, navigate to the corresponding Nuance Mix home page to create a free account for testing purposes. For more information about the available regions, see Geographies in the Nuance Mix documentation. It is important to note that the free account has limitations and cannot be used for production traffic.
    • Contact your Nuance representative directly to place your service order and create your production account.

Transactional IVR applications often need a multi-digit or numeric input. In addition to DTMF, your customers increasingly work in hands-free environments. As such, you must capture the information that you need via automated speech recognition (ASR). When you add ASR support for customer input, reuse custom and fine-tuned .grxml grammars from previous implementations, and combine them with bot capabilities, you can create a wider suite of ASR applications.

Language Region Language tag
Basque European Union eu-ES
Catalan Spain ca-ES
Dutch Netherlands nl-NL
Chinese Simplified - People's Republic of China  zh-CN
Traditional - Hong Kong S.A.R. cn-HK
English Australia  en-AU
Great Britain  en-GB
India en-IN
United States en-US
French Belgium fr-BE
Canada  fr-CA
France fr-FR
German Germany  de-DE
Switzerland de-CH
Galician Spain gl-ES
Italian Italy it-IT
Japanese Japan ja-JP
Korean  Korea ko-KR
Portuguese Brazil  pt-BR
Portugal pt-PT
Russian Russia ru-RU
Spanish Spain es-ES
United States and Latin America es-US
Valencian Spain va-ES

Note: For more information about language coverage, see the Nuance Recognizer documentation or contact your Nuance representatives directly.

Nuance Recognizer

Nuance Recognizer understands and interprets spoken and touchtone input to help deliver seamless self-service. The underlying recognition engine is grammar-based, which means it requires grammars to interpret a caller’s utterance.

Constrained grammar recognition engines are especially useful for:

  • Recognizing alphanumeric inputs such as account numbers and tracking numbers.
  • Small scoped applications that are designed for interactions with a small set of words and phrases to recognize.
  • Directed dialog to help with navigating a menu tree of items, either used for the first interaction of a caller, or as the basis of the system’s conversational design.

The gRPC protocol allows a client application to request speech recognition in all the programming languages supported by gRPC.

gRPC is an open-source RPC (remote procedure call) software used to create services. It uses HTTP/2 for transport and Protocol Buffers version 3 (“proto3”) to define the structure of the application.

Nuance Recognizer as a Service integration

When you install the Nuance Recognizer as a Service integration in Genesys Cloud, you can use a traditional, grammar-based ASR in your Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows. This implementation provides you with a simple, directed dialog speech application if you do not need natural language understanding and do not want to train and maintain it. A traditional, grammar-based ASR gives you higher accuracy for constrained domains and tighter control over the grammar tuning, and is easy to implement and tune. The integration increases the number of options available in terms of languages and voices in your customer interactions.

The Nuance Recognizer as a Service Integration offers the following features:

  • Storage and management of static GRXML grammar files (voice and DTMF) – Nuance Tier 1 to 3 grammar types
  • Storage and management of static GRAM grammar files (voice and DTMF) – Nuance Tier 1 to 3 grammars types
  • DTMF detection and fallback
  • Top result of the n-best recognition results
  • Top result of the n-best recognition confidence
  • Slot-level complete timeout and incomplete timeout
  • Slot-level confidence
  • Speech Detection Sensitivity
  • Max Speech Timeout
  • Multi-language support and the ability to configure multiple Nuance Mix credentials

Add the grammar-based Nuance Recognizer as a Service integration and then choose from the Nuance voice and language options in the Ask for Slot action in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows actions in Architect:

For more information, see Create a bot flow and use third-party ASR grammar quick start guide.