When Neural Machine Translation is boosting Customer Service

In today’s accelerated globalization, booming e-commerce and customer service digitalization, the languages spoken by potential consumers come in hundreds. Global companies are faced with a problematic equation: while they might have centralized their customer service operations, it is still costly to recruit an agent for every language covered. It is nevertheless crucial to respond to customers in their native language quickly, efficiently and at minimal cost to achieve excellent Customer Service.

Breaking the language barrier

It’s simple: translating client emails instantly, responding to them in their language just as quickly or automatically displaying the most common answers in FAQ databases in multiple languages is a real Game Changer. For global Customer Service teams, the response time in foreign languages can be divided by 10 after Neural Machine Translation implementation! Calls are reduced with increased usage of a multilingual online knowledge base and customer satisfaction is higher than ever!

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Data leakage is the biggest threat

More importantly, unsecured online translation tools, often used by customer service teams to understand customer queries in foreign languages expose companies to data leaks. The nature of interactions  during customer service operations can be as critical as sharing account information, credit card numbers, passwords and so on…

To guarantee complete security of your customer data, it’s absolutely key to rely on a provider that is able to provide the translation service on-premise or accessible via a private cloud. It is also true for internal support interactions. SYSTRAN also provide translation solutions for enterprise IT departments following a trend of global support services centralization, and allow them to manage technical support requests worldwide while ensuring user data security.