8.5.512 SpeechMiner UI User Manual

SpeechMiner UI User Manual

8.5.5

Date: 7/11/2018

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to SpeechMiner
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New in this Release 4
SpeechMiner Deployments 15
Topics, Categories and Programs 17
Topics 19
Categories 21
Programs 23
Log into SpeechMiner 26
SpeechMiner Menu Reference 28
Chapter 2: Dashboard
30
Dashboard Menu Reference 31
Create a New Dashboard 32
Working with Dashboards 34
Widgets 36
Working with Widgets 37
Report Widget 40
My Messages Widget 43
Chapter 3: Explore
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Explore Menu Reference 47
Search Results Grid 48
Working with the Search Results Grid 52
What is an Interaction? 55
Screen Recordings 58
Batch Actions 59
Create a New Search 64
Search Filter 66
Explore Terms 74
Saved Searches 75
Compare Saved Searches 77
Interaction Lists 79
Content Browser 82
Trending 84

Create a Trending Filter 86
Create a Custom Trending Cluster Task 88
Trending Filter Toolbar Description 91
Trending Chart Tool Tip Description 95
Trending Chart Data Description 97
Manage the Blacklist 101
Working with Saved Trending Filters 103
Export Trending Data 107
Chapter 4: Media Player
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Playback 110
Playback Controls 111
Hidden Confidential Information 115
Dual-Channel Audio 116
Interaction Transcript 117
Interaction Comments 121
Interaction Events 124
Interaction Attributes 126
Media Player Options 127
Chapter 5: Reports
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Reports Menu Reference 132
Create a New Report 133
Edit a Report 134
Run a Report 135
Analyze Report Data 137
Drill Down a Report 138
Working with Saved Reports 139
Schedule a Report 142
Report Templates 147
Report Template Layout 150
Report Parameters 152
Available Templates 158
Agent Bubble Chart 160
Agent Comparison 162
Agent Comparison by Segment 163
Agent Evaluation Comparison 165
Agent Trend 166

Agent Trend by Segment 167
Auto Fail 168
Calibration Score 169
Capacity Trend 170
Category Bubble Chart 171
Category Distribution 173
Category Trend 175
Coaching Summary 176
Evaluation Summary 177
Evaluator Evaluation Comparison 178
Interaction Evaluation Summary 179
Interactions 180
Metadata Frequency 181
Performance Profile 183
Predictive Elements 185
Program Distribution 187
System Load 188
Team Comparison 190
Team Comparison by Segment 191
Team Evaluation Comparison 193
Top and Bottom Performers 194
Topic Analysis - Audits 196
Topic Analysis -Trends 198
Usage Tracking 200
Chapter 6: Quality Management
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Quality Management Menu Reference 202
Quality Management Workflow 203
Forms Manager 204
Forms Manager Grid 206
Create a New Form 208
Form Questions 211
Question Library 215
Configure Question Weights 218
Manage a Form 224
Evaluations Manager 227
Evaluations Manager Grid 229
Create an Evaluation 231

Distributed Interaction Evaluation 232
Distributed Agent Evaluation 235
Shared Evaluation 239
Calibration Evaluation 242
Create an Ad-Hoc Evaluation Session 244
Evaluation Sessions 245
Evaluation Sessions Grid 247
Perform an Evaluation Session 250
Open and Edit a Completed Evaluation Session 254
Archive an Evaluation Session 256
Chapter 7: Coaching
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Coaching Menu Reference 259
Coaching Session Grid 260
Create a New Coaching Session 262
Participate in a Coaching Session 266
Edit a Coaching Session 268
Working with Coaching Sessions 271
Create a Coaching Session Report 274
View Report Details 276
Manage Session Types and Reason Codes 278
Chapter 8: Tools
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Tools Menu Reference 283
System Admin 284
Preset View 286
Monitor System 290
Manage Interaction Queue 293
Purge System 294
Manage Cache 296
Interactions Admin 298
System Configuration 300
Alerts 304
System Alerts 308
Metadata Manager 310
Export Completed QM Sessions 311
Define Tags 313
Chapter 9: Action Items
314

Create an Action Item 315
Edit an Action Item 316
Change the Action Item Status 317
Chapter 10: Profile Permissions
319
Edit a User Profile 321
Administer Users 323
Administer Groups 329
Administer Roles 331
Permission Definitions 334
Web Site Permissions 335
Reports Permissions 345
SMART Permissions 348
SMConfig Permissions 351
Chapter 11: Permalink
353
Chapter 12: Frequently Asked Questions
355
Chapter 13: Analyze Related Words
357
Chapter 14: Appendix A ‐ Configure the Browser
359
Internet Explorer 360
Chrome 366

Introduction to SpeechMiner

SpeechMiner UI® is the Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories’s speech-analytics platform. It analyzes audio

content and text-based interactions such as email, chat messages and so on. Speech-analytics leverages recorded

customer interactions (from any recording system) and analyzes each interaction for critical business topics and events.

The system analyzes interactions between customers and contact-center agents, precisely identifies the topics that

were discussed, and categorizes the contents of each interaction.

DISCLAIMER: Some features explained throughout this document (specifically anything associated with Text and

Social interactions) are not available in our Cloud offering and are only available on Premise. When a feature is not

available in our Cloud offering, a disclaimer will appear in the feature explanation.

SpeechMiner UI consists of a user interface (UI) and several back-end components that deliver key capabilities

required for various products within the Genesys Workforce Optimization suite. These products include:

SpeechMiner UI UI:

The SpeechMiner UI UI is a component of the SpeechMiner UI package and provides a single User Interface (UI)

for all Genesys Interaction Recording, Quality Management and Genesys Interaction Analytics functionality. Through

the SpeechMiner UI UI users can perform search and playback for voice and screen recordings, perform traditional

quality management tasks such as evaluation of interactions through form based scoring, or advanced speech and text

analytics capabilities such as topic analysis or trending and exploration analysis of transcripts.

SpeechMiner UI UI is comprised of two software components:

SpeechMiner UI browser-based interface''': Offers a variety of ways to access call audio and the results of the

interaction analysis performed by the system (when Analytics mode is in use). Users of the speech-analytics

system interface can do the following:

Find interactions that have specific characteristics or are about particular topics.

Identify and listen to the parts of calls that interest them.

Audit and fine-tune SpeechMiner UI's call processing.

Keep track of a range of system-metrics.

SpeechMiner UI Administration Tool (SMART): Enables users of the speech-analytics system to configure it to

search interactions for specific topics and other characteristics.

Genesys Interaction Recording (GIR):

Genesys Interaction Recording (GIR) provides cradle to grave dual channel voice recording and screen recording for

customer-ivr and customer-agent conversations as they occur within the Genesys Contact Center. Through deep

integration with Genesys SIP and the TLib event model, GIR is able to automatically stitch together call segments and

capture all relevant call meta data to provide the information you need to fulfill important use cases within your

business including Compliance, Dispute Resolution and Workforce Training and Coaching. GIR utilizes components of

the core Genesys Contact Center stack such as SIP Server and Media Server, but brings along its own components to

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deliver the full set of features within GIR. Additionally, the GIR User Interace (UI) is provided by the SpeechMiner UI

UI, which is the unified interface for recording, quality management and interaction analytics capabilities within the

Genesys suite.

Quality Management (QM):

Quality Management (QM) enables you to monitor quality and evaluate agent performance on a periodic and

consistent basis while minimizing effort through automated interaction selection to improve customer experience and

engage with your staff. QM includes a robust and feature rich form designer along with a number of evaluation

schedule types to meet the SLAs required by your business in providing core use cases around Quality Management

as well as input to Coaching and Training through form based scoring of interactions. Interactions can be sourced from

GIR or third party recording platforms, depending on the deployment type selected. All QM functionality is provided

through the SpeechMiner UI UI, which is the unified interface for recording, quality management and interaction

analytics capabilities within the Genesys suite.

Genesys Interaction Analytics (GIA):

Genesys Interaction Analytics (GIA) provides automated speech and text analytics capabilities on 100% of

interactions to provide deep insight into customer-agent conversations. For voice interaction, GIA provides automated

transcription and employs Speech-to-Phrase grammar based recognition along with non-linguistic analysis of

recordings to create meaning from otherwise unstructured data. Organizations can use this data to fulfill key use cases

around Agent Performance Improvement (for example, decrease AHT, increase FCR, Sales Conversion, and so on.),

Compliance and Customer Satisfaction (for example, NPS). Additionally, for both voice and text interactions, GIA

employs advanced unsupervised machine learning algorithms to surface salient or unexpected terms to enable use

cases around Uncovering Emerging Trends or Discovery of New Phrases and Intents. All analysis and discovery

functionality is provided through the SpeechMiner UI UI, which is the unified interface for recording, quality

management and interaction analytics capabilities within the Genesys suite.

Note:Each of these products are sold separately and in different combinations based on the specific requirements of

your organization

SpeechMiner UI supports the following deployment modes:

Analytics and Recording UI: Enables search, play back and analysis of interactions recorded using Genesys

Interaction Recording. The QM module is also available is purchased.

Recording UI Only: Enables search and play back of interactions recorded using Genesys Interaction

Recording. The contents of the interactions are not processed by the interactions analytics system. The QM

module is also available if purchased.

Analytics Only: Imports interactions including their recorded call audio from any recording system using a

UConnector. The UConnector is a Professional Services built ETL application that imports interactions and

meta data from a third party recording system. After the interactions are imported, SpeechMiner UI processes

the contents of each interaction for interaction analytics. The QM module is also available if purchased.

Analytics Only with PureConnect: Imports interactions and their recorded call audio from a PureConnect

deployment using the UConnector for PureConnect. This UConnector is a Professional Services built ETL

application that imports interactions and meta data from PureConnect. After the interactions are imported,

SpeechMiner UI processes the contents of each interaction for interaction analytics. The QM module is also

available if purchased.

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New in this Release

The following is a list of the new SpeechMiner UI features:

DISCLAIMER: Every language that is not US English is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on

Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.

8.5.512 Release

Interaction Search Improvements:

Search Results – Total Matches: When performing a search in the Interactions grid, the search results

now shows the total number of interactions within the system that match the specified filter criteria.

Pop-Out Media Player: Users can now pop out multiple instances of the Media Player in separate

Media Player windows to allow multiple interactions to be accessed at the same time. This allows users

with screen recordings to stretch out the Media Player to see more detail in the screen recording.

Quality Management Improvements:

Improved Scheduling and Distribution Options: A number of changes have been made to the

options available for Evaluation Session scheduling and distribution:

Changes to Recurrence Parameters: Recurrence options are now Days, Weeks and Months.

The Hours and Minutes options have been removed to reduce the chances of creating too many

unneeded evaluation sessions.

Distributed Agent Evaluation Improvement: The Exactly option is now available for

Distributed Agent Evaluation types. This allows a specific number of interactions to be selected for

evaluation for a specific set of agents for a given time (e.g. in a month).

Maximum Values for Exactly: The system now has limits on the maximum value for Exactly,

these are 1000 for Shared and Distributed Interaction Evaluation types and 30 for Distributed

Agent. Note that these values are changeable in the database.

Multiple Evaluators Selection: It is now possible to select multiple Evaluators for Distributed

Interaction, Distributed Agent and Shared Evaluation types. When multiple Evaluators are

selected, the resulting Sessions will be evenly distributed across Evaluators in a round robin

fashion.

Evaluation Session Grid Search: The Search Filter for Evaluation Sessions has been updated and

now users can select the type of sessions (Active, Archived, Expired) and other filter criteria, prior to

submitting a search. Previously, every change resulted in a new search that could cause delays in loading

time.

Evaluation Session PDF Export Improvements: When exporting an Evaluation Session as a PDF

report, it is now possible to see all text that was entered in a Free Form answer field. In addition, all

comments associated with the underlying interaction are displayed in the PDF report.

Default Form to 100%: To reduce clicks and save time when performing an evaluation, users can now

select a toggle to default all answers in all forms within an Evaluation Session to 100% (or the maximum

possible score). The default behavior when initially loading the form is configurable in the database. Also,

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a new permission to allow access to this toggle has been added.

Trending Improvements: (In a Genesys Interactions Analytics GIA deployment) A new View Trending

Cluster Task Information permission was added to SpeechMiner Permissions.

Clustering Information Visibility: User now have more flexibility in who can view and edit Clustering

Tasks and their related information on the Trending page. Now, users with the View Clustering Task

Information permission can view information without the need for elevated permissions to edit theses

tasks.

Language Enablement:

Recognition of Russian (ru-RU) and Russian (ru-RU) UI support has been enabled. Genesys Interactions

Analytics (GIA) now operates on voice interactions and text interactions in Russian.

The Turkish Language pack (tr-TR) for interaction analytics has been improved with additional training

material.

8.5.511 Release

Interaction Search Improvements:

Search for Interactions with Screen Recording (In a Genesys Interactions Recording deployment -

GIR): It is now possible to search for interactions that include or exclude screen recordings. Interactions

that have an associated screen recording are tagged with the Screen Recording tag. This feature can be

used in conjunction with Quality Management (QM) to exclusively perform evaluations on interactions

that have screen recordings.

Note: This feature only works under the following conditions:

Only for interactions that have been added to the system after SpeechMiner UI 8.5.511 was

installed.

The system must be configured with an external RWS to enable screen recordings.

The solution requires Recording Web Services (RWS) version 8.5.202.69 or later.

Filter by Minute Granularity: You can now search for interactions within the Interactions and

Events grids with minute granularity. Also, the filter within the QM Evaluations Manger and

Trending can now be specified with minute granularity.

Search E-mail Headers: The search capability has been extended to include additional filters for e-mail

headers. You can now search for e-mails according to header fields including To, From, Cc and Bcc

fields. After upgrading to 8.5.511 you must re-index text interactions in order to be able to use the new

email filters for existing data.

Quality Management Improvements:

Form Weighting: It is now possible to provide up to two decimal places when assigning weights within

forms, both at the group level and the question level.

Export Completed QM Sessions Improvement: The exported data is now organized such that each

question and related score are organized in separate columns for every group and form within the

selected evaluations. Also, the export is limited to up to 10 selected evaluations for the chosen date

range. Previously, all evaluations where exported.

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Text Interaction Improvements:

Storage of Text Interactions (In a Text Analytics deployment - GIA): The solution now stores text

interactions in the file system instead of the database. This includes encryption of the file on disk if

configured as well as a unique value for retention policy period for these text interactions. By migrating

new and existing text interactions from the database to the file system, a large amount of database space

can be freed.

Text Attachments (In a Genesys Interactions Analytics deployment - GIA): The solution now stores

and analyzes text attachments that are part of a text interaction. The system will analyze the content of the

attachment in the same way it analyzes text interactions (for example, topic classification, searches and so

on). The text attachment is displayed below the text interaction transcript with Attachment in the title.

Interaction Type: You can now search for interactions according to the new Text interaction type.

Raw Text Interactions Support (In a Text Analytics deployment - GIA): The solution can now analyze

raw text interactions (that is .txt files) in the same way it analyzes audio, e-mail and chat interactions. You

can also search for these interactions using the new Texts interaction type.

In-Line Audit of Topic Events (In a Genesys Interactions Analytics deployment - GIA): Users can now audit

topic events for Interaction Analytics in-line within the transcription viewer from the search page for all

interactions types. This option is only available is the user has the correct privileges assigned.

Trending Improvements:

New Words More Prominent: In Trending reports, when new terms are uncovered they are now

shown more prominently in Top Movers.

Layout Options: User now have more flexibility in how the data is viewed on the Trending page. Users

can now select one of three different layout options: Comination, Chart or Table. Combination shows

the chart and table together, while Chart or Table show only one or the other. Also, the option to '''Ignore

Blacklist''' is included as part of the layout options drop down. The selected option is persistent across

sessions.

Reset Filters: You can now reset the trending filters to the default state in Trending.

Language Enablement:

Recognition of Dutch (nl -NL) and Dutch (nl -NL) UI support has been enabled. Genesys Interactions

Analytics (GIA) now operates on voice interactions and text interactions in Dutch.

The US Spanish Language pack (es-US) has been updated to include improvements for Colombia and

Mexican Spanish dialects.

PureConnect: Product materials have been updated to reflect General Availability of PureEngage

Genesys Interaction Analytics and PureEngage Quality Management with PureConnect.

8.5.510 Release

Interaction Search, Export and Add Improvements:

Sort by Agent: Within the Interactions grid it is now possible to sort by the Agent column. Interactions

with multiple agents will appear after (descending order) or before (ascending order) the alphabetized list

of interactions with one agent. Subsequently, Interactions with multiple agents are sorted by the number

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of agents and then relevance.

Search by List of Interaction IDs: It is now possible to search for a specific set of Interactions based

on a semicolon delimited list of Interaction IDs. A list of up to 50 Interaction IDs is supported. This can

be useful when working with a specific set of interactions.

Export All Interaction Meta Data: You can now easily export all the metadata associated with

Interactions from an interaction search, up to the maximum number of listed interactions, without having

to scroll through all interactions in the search results.

Add All Interactions to a List: You can now easily add all Interactions from an interaction search to an

Interaction List without having to scroll through all interactions in the search results.

Quality Management Improvements:

In-Line Rubric / Standards Definition: Forms and Questions within Forms now have an expanded

Description field that can be used to store the standard definition or rubric used by your Quality

Managers to ensure consistency when performing evaluations of Agents.

Form and Evaluation Manager Improvement: The Forms Manager grid and the Evaluations

Manager grid now includes a Description column; if a description is long, the full content is shown in a

tooltip. In addition, when you hover over a Form or Evaluation name, a tooltip with the description of the

specific Form/Evaluation is shown.

Trending Rank for Top Terms: The Top Terms table in the Trending report results now includes a Rank

column for each period. The Rank column displays the relative importance and prominence of the specific

term/phrase in the selected Period.

Manual Text Categorization: You can now manually assign a category to a Text Interaction from the

Attributes page of the interaction.

SMART Improvements:

Option to Re-categorize Interactions: SMART users can now decide to re-categorize all existing

interactions in the system or not when updating Category definitions.

SMART Statistics Date: You can now configure the default Show Calls Since date value in SMART

to determine in advance the date range for the information that will be shown.

Reporting Improvements:

Agent Comparison by Segment report: It is now possible to report on agents performance based on

the Segments within an Interaction instead of just at the Interaction level only. Interactions can have

multiple Segments, each involving a different Agent. Reporting by Segment provides more precise Agent

Comparison information for multi-segment interactions.

Agent Trend by Segment report: It is now possible to report on agent performance trends based on

the Segments within an Interaction instead of just at the Interaction level only. Reporting by Segment

provides more precise Agent Trend information for multi-segment interactions.

Team Comparison by Segment report: It is now possible to report on teams performance based on

the Segments within an Interaction instead of just at the Interaction level only. Interactions can have

multiple Segments, each involving a different Agent from different Teams. Reporting by Segment provides

more precise Team Comparison information for multi-segment interactions as only Segments where that

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Team was involved are included in the comparison report.

Language Enablement: Recognition of Canadian French (fr-CA) and Canadian French UI support was

enabled. Speech Analytics and Text Analytics now operate on voice interactions and text interactions in

Canadian French.

SpeechMiner UI UI UI: Windows 10 64-bit Support: SpeechMiner UI UI UI is now supported for all

existing supported browsers (i.e. Chrome and Internet Explorer) on systems running Windows 10 64-bit.

8.5.509 Release

Genesys Logo: The Genesys logo has been updated throughout the product based on new Genesys branding.

Access Control: SpeechMiner UI now supports Configuration Server based Access Control for items within

SpeechMiner UI for Genesys based user accounts. This functionality determines the agents and users that are

visible to a logged in user based on their granted Read permissions. Additionally, access to items within

SpeechMiner UI (For example, Forms, Evaluations, and so on.) is also limited based on read access to the

creator of those items. Access Control is enabled in the following areas of the user interface:

All Agent Hierarchy filters, including those in Search, Evaluation Manager, Evaluation Sessions and

Trending.

All Users filters, including those in Search, Evaluation Manager, Action Items, Saved Reports - Sharing,

Saved Searches – Sharing, Interactions List - Sharing.

Forms, Evaluations and Evaluation Sessions.

Coaching and Alerts.

Improved Tooltips: Tooltips in SpeechMiner UI in various locations now provide more detail; for cases where

even more space is required, clicking on the element loads a modal window with all the information. Affected

areas include: Topics and Categories in the Interactions Grid, Current Filter at the top of the Interactions

Grid, and Action Items details.

Quality Management Improvements:

Evaluation Sessions Grid: You can now filter the Evaluation Sessions grid according to the date on

which the session was created as well as when the session was completed.

Evaluation Session Completion: The workflow to close an Evaluation Session has been optimized to

reduce the number of clicks required.

Language Enablement: Recognition of Cantonese (zh -HK) and Cantonese UI support was enabled. Speech

Analytics and Text Analytics now operate on voice interactions and text interactions in Cantonese.

Topic Analysis – Audits: The header row in the Topic Analysis – Audits report is now fixed so users can

always see the column titles. This functionality is only supported in the Chrome browse.

Trending Export: You can now export all information shown in a Trending report. This capability is enabled

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only for users with the appropriate permissions.

Coaching Improvements:

Interaction Comments: It is now possible to add comments from the Media Player that is available in

the Coaching and Operations Search pages.

Session Subtype and Reason Code: You can now add a session subtypes (a secondary or

subordinate session type that falls under the general classification of a specific session type) and a reason

code (the cause, explanation or justification for completing a coaching session) to each Coaching

Session.

Updated Icons: The Coaching Session summary page now includes a Status icon and Status name

that makes it easier to identify the status of a case at a glance.

8.5.508 Release

Events and Comments for Text Interactions:

You can now add in-line comments to text interaction transcripts. Event markers are located throughout

the text interaction based on where the event was detected in the text.

Event navigation is now available in text interaction transcripts from the events and comments list on the

right side of the screen and from the transcript timeline. When clicking on an event marker the event will

be highlighting in the transcript.

The text interaction timeline now contains both event and comment markers.

The new Search filter above the events and comments list now enables you to quickly filter the events

and comments list for all interaction types. This filter can also be made persistent.

Trending:

The Related Words option from the Trending chart, now produces the Related Words chart based on the

Trending page filter selections.

The Trending chart can now include verbs. Previously, the chart only included noun phrases.

Custom Trending Cluster Tasks can now be defined with specific filter criteria, beyond the default cluster

tasks, to ensure that the data and results shown on the Trending bubble chart fully reflect the specific data

set that you are interested in exploring with this tool.

The Header row of the Topic Analysis - Audits report is now static when the report is long and you must

scroll down to view additional details. The static row is only supported when working with Chrome.

SpeechMiner UI no longer supports Internet Explorer 10.

8.5.507 Release

Auto Fail Report: A drill down report that focuses on auto fail Quality Management questions and agents.

Auto Fail Permission: A new Auto Fail permission has been added to enable the user to create, edit and/or

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view the Auto Fail report.

Distributed Evaluations Targeted to Specific Agents: Provides supervisors with the ability to evaluate

specific agents repeatedly over time.

Quality Management - Agent Notification: Enables agent collaboration to provide agent feedback against

evaluations and related scores.

Show Evaluation Session Score Permission: Enables a user to turn on/off the evaluation session Show

Score option.

Replace Interaction: Enables a user (based on existing search criteria) to select an alternative interaction due

to the interaction's quality.

Replace an Evaluation Session Interaction Permission: Enables the user to replace the evaluation session

interaction.

Interaction Tags: Enables you to use user defined tags for a variety of uses (for example, compliance or

training).

Define Tags: Enables you to define tags for a variety of uses (for example, compliance or training).

Define Tags Page Permission: Enables a user to define and edit an interaction tag.

Tag Interactions Permission: Enables a user to tag an interaction.

Protect from Deletion: Enables you to prevent an interaction from being deleted.

Protect Interactions from Deletion:A new permission has been added to enable you to protect interactions

from deletion.

Tag Interactions as Evaluated: Automatically adds an Evaluated tag when an evaluation session is

completed.

Ad-Hoc Evaluation: Enables you to launch an evaluation from the player against a specific media asset.

Create Ad-Hoc Evaluation Permission: This permission will enable the user to evaluate interactions from the

Explore page.

Trending Bubble – Drag and Drop: Enables you to move a Trending bubble to a different location on the

screen. This ability is useful in moving apart bubbles that are close together as the system has found that they are

closely related. Once the Trending chart is re-run , the bubble returns to its original place.

Recognition Improvements: Recognition enhancements have been made for improved accuracy and

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detection results.

8.5.506 Release

Alpha Numeric Operation IDs: Operation IDs can now contain both letters and numbers.

Export to PDF: Enables users to export a completed evaluation session as a PDF file.

Export Completed QM Sessions: Users can now export completed evaluation sessions according to a

specific date range.

Recognition Improvements: Recognition improvements have been made for Italian.

Installation/Upgrade Prerequisite: Before installing/upgrading SpeechMiner UI .NET 4.6.2 must be

installed.

8.5.505 Release

Improved Trending capabilities: Enables users to monitor and analyze terms and phrases within

conversations in conjunction with a variety of search criteria to better surface and analyze unforeseen or

unexpected trends to improve business outcomes and agent performance.

Configuration Data:

User lists now include only users associated with the context in which they are shown (for example, a list

of evaluators will only include users with QM permissions).

Changes to the Configuration Database have an immediate effect on the system (for example, when a

user is given QM permissions, his/her name will appear in the evaluators list the next time you view the

list).

Preset views are now supported for users with Genesys authentication.

Call List Order: Interaction lists are now sorted in descending order. The newest interaction is listed first.

Database Optimization: Database storage can now be significantly decreased by not storing events that were

not found with a high enough confidence.

8.5.504 Release

Encrypt exported interactions: Enables you to encrypt exported interactions, so that a password is required

to access the interactions.

Export an Interaction List / Saved Search from a Coaching Session: Enables you to export interaction

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lists and saved searches directly from a Coaching session.

Retrieve Original Interaction: Enables you to restore an interaction with its original audio or text file

(including all attachments).

Export Coaching Session permission: A new permission has been added to enable or disable the option of

exporting an interaction list and/or saved search from a Coaching Session.

Retrieve Original Interaction permission: A new permission has been added to enable or disable the

option of retrieving original audio or text data for a specific interaction.

Language Support: Support for the Catalan (ca-ES) language has been discontinued.

8.5.503 Release

Predictive Elements Report: A report composed of two bar graphs that show the relationship between

selected Categories and Target Categories.

Interaction Evaluation Summary Report: A report that shows the evaluation score for the last evaluation

session, associated with a specific evaluator and interaction.

Program Distribution Report: A report that graphs the interaction volume for each Program.

Edit Interaction Comments permission: A new permission has been added to control which Users can edit

an interaction comment; this permission is system wide for a given User.

Customer Sensitive Data permission: A new Recording Only permission has been added to enable the user

to display customer sensitive meta data (for example, attached data from CIM) in the SpeechMiner UI GUI.

When this permission is enabled, the data is visible.

Agent Sensitive Data permission: A new Recording Only permission has been added to enable the user to

display agent sensitive meta data (for example, agent name) in the SpeechMiner UI GUI. When this permission

is enabled, the data is visible.

Interaction Evaluation Summary permission: A new permission has been added to enable or disable the

Interaction Evaluation Summary report.

Timestamps in Comments: Interaction display improvements have been made to include a time-stamp in

comments. Users will now see the date and time at which the comment was made/last edited.

Segment Filter: Users can now filter the Search Results grid according to a specific number of segments. In

addition, the search results can be restricted further using the greater than and/or less than options.

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Support for MSSQL 2014: SpeechMiner UI now supports MSSQL 2014.

Recognition Improvements: Recognition improvements have been made for the following existing languages:

Arabic (ar-WW), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR), German (de-DE), Korean (kr-KO), Japanese (ja-JP).

8.5.502 Release

Recognition Improvements: Recognition improvements have been made to enhance voice analysis for

improved accuracy and detection results for English and Spanish.

Shared Evaluations: Creates evaluation sessions about an agent's performance during customer interactions

without assigning the sessions to a specific evaluator(s). Instead, each evaluator associated with the session can

select and assign himself/herself a specific session from the available pool of sessions.

Edit a Completed Evaluation: Users with the correct permission can open, save, export and close a

completed evaluation session.

Filter Panel: Users can now quickly and easily create retrieve evaluation session information by narrowing

down the evaluation session list.

Export Incomplete Evaluation Session: Users can now export an evaluation session that was saved but not

completed.

Archive Completed Evaluation Sessions: Users can now archive completed evaluation sessions

automatically at a specific period of time or manually.

Interactions Report: A new report that provides a list of all the interactions in the system.

Localization for Turkish: User Interface localization was added for Turkish.

Analytics for Turkish: Speech Analytics and Text Analytics now operate on voice interactions and text

interactions in Turkish.

8.5.501 Release

Enhanced Segment Data and Metadata: The Attributes page now contains data for interaction segments.

Localization for Arabic: User Interface localization was added for Arabic.

QM Evaluation Session Score Visualization: An evaluation session score is visible throughout

the evaluation session.

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Screen Column Customization: It is now possible to change the column order in the Interactions, Events and

QM grids per user.

8.5.5 Release

Quality Management - Question Library: When creating a Quality Management form you can now select

an existing group of questions and you can create a new group for future use.

SMUpgrade: The new upgrade process executes faster and no longer requires two databases. This one-step

upgrade procedure can be performed from any version to any version on the customer's database (that is, a

new database is not required).

Note: The new upgrade procedure is not out of the box. If you are interested in this new upgrade

procedure, contact Customer Care and allow for one week to receive the scripts required to

perform the procedure along with instructions about how to use them. For additional details, refer

to the SpeechMiner UI Upgrade Guide.

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SpeechMiner Deployments

SpeechMiner UI provides a single User Interface (UI) across most of the solutions within the Genesys Workforce

Optimization suite, including Interaction Recording, Interaction Analytics and Quality Management. Since each of

these solutions are sold separately and the combination your organization uses depends on your specific requirements,

a high-level summary of the different "deployment options" for the SpeechMiner UI UI is provided here.

SMART can be deployed on Premise or part of the Genesys Cloud offering.

For Premise, SpeechMiner UI can be deployed in one of the following three environments:

Recording Only

Analytics Only

Recording and Analytics

For Cloud, SpeechMiner UI can be deployed in one of the following two configurations:

Recording Only

Recording and Analytics

Note: The availability of SpeechMiner UI features is dependent on the deployment you are working in and your

permissions.

Recording Only:

As of version 8.5, SpeechMiner UI is available in a scaled down version referred to as Recording only UI mode. In

this mode, the SpeechMiner UI browser-based interface is used for accessing interactions that were recorded by the

Genesys Interaction Recording system.

In Recording mode, SpeechMiner UI can be used to:

Play back interactions.

Search for interactions.

Manually create an interaction list.

Perform additional basic actions.

In Recording only mode, the audio recognition process and content analytics are not performed on interactions.

As a result, only a subset of the standard SpeechMiner UI features is available.

In Recording only mode with an optional Quality Management (QM) license, you will be able to perform QM tasks

on the recorded interactions.

Analytics Only:

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The Analytics Only mode delivers the same functionality as a Recording Only environment, with the addition of

Analytics processing capabilities that allow interactions to be automatically transcribed and analyzed.

Analytics Only does not connect to the Genesys Interaction Recording (GIR) system. Instead, it relies on the

customer's own recording subsystem (validated for compatibility by the Genesys Professional Services department).

In this mode interactions are imported with their their recorded call audio from any recording system using a

UConnector. The UConnector is a Professional Services built ETL application that imports interactions and meta data

from a third party recording system. After the interactions are imported, SpeechMiner UI processes the contents of

each interaction for interaction analytics. The QM module is also available if purchased

QM functionality is optional in this configuration and is enabled with a QM license.

Analytics and Recording UI:

The Recording and Analytics mode enables customers to use Analytics and Genesys Interaction Recording (GIR)

integration. This deployment provides users with the ability to perform Analytics tasks on interactions captured using

the GIR system.

In this deployment GIR integration offers features that are not typically available with other non-Genesys recording

subsystems. Refer to the GIR Release Notes for a full list of its functionality or contact your Genesys professional to

help you decide if you need GIR recording.

QM functionality is optional in this configuration and is enabled with a QM license.

Analytics Only with PureConnect:

Imports interactions and their recorded call audio from a PureConnect deployment using the UConnector for

PureConnect. This UConnector is a Professional Services built ETL application that imports interactions and meta

data from PureConnect. After the interactions are imported, SpeechMiner UI processes the contents of each

interaction for interaction analytics. The QM module is also available if purchased.

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Topics, Categories and Programs

Topics Categories and Programs are SMART features that are used when creating a set of instructions designed to

help gather and deliver valuable intelligence that business users readily understand and use.

SMART, the SpeechMiner UI Administration Tool, is a component of SpeechMiner UI, Genesys's award-winning

product for Customer Intelligence and it is used to help reveal the information about cause/effect relationships that

affect performance and business outcomes.

SMART defines the set of instructions that is used by SpeechMiner UI to perform recognition and analysis of

customer data.

The set of instructions managed by SMART are made up of:

Topics: Boosts the recognition of a specific business issue by telling SpeechMiner UI what phrases to look for.

Categories: Group interactions with similar characteristics so that SpeechMiner UI users can find calls associated with

a specific business issue.

Programs: A set of instructions that tell SpeechMiner UI what to recognize in recorded conversations between contact

center agents and customers, in relation to a specific business issue.

Before creating a topic or category, gather information about the business issue you want to investigate and track

interactions that are generated by the specific issue.

1. What is your business goal?

2. Determine the type of interactions generated by the business issue by listening to existing interactions about the

subject or similar subjects, reading e-mails that relate to them, and consulting agents who interact with

customers. For example, for a customer service topic, the set of relevant interactions may only include incoming

interactions about help and assistance.

3. Gather examples of employee scripts and typical phrases used in these interactions.

SpeechMiner UI and SMART are installed and configured by Genesys at the customer's site. For optimal

performance, Genesys researches the customer's business and subsequently defines the initial SMART instructions.

Typically, SpeechMiner UI implementations at customer sites include development and underlying SMART system by

our Client Solutions team, but Advanced SpeechMiner UI users with SpeechMiner UI Administrator privileges can

modify the SMART system themselves to further fine-tune interaction recognition and analysis for their company. The

customer may want to make slight modifications to topics based on the accuracy of the results they are achieving, or

the customer may want to define new programs for new interaction campaigns or procedures based on existing ones.

Advanced SpeechMiner UI users at the customers site can perform the following SMART tasks:

Open and modify existing categories and topics.

Create new categories and/or topics.

Test changes to categories and/or topics.

Apply SMART changes to SpeechMiner UI.

Reprocess selected interactions through the SpeechMiner UI interface.

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Rollback to an earlier set of SMART instructions.

Import SMART instructions.

Export SMART instructions.

For additional information about SMART, refer to the SMART User Manual.

DISCLAIMER: SMART is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Topics

A topic enables you to boost the recognition of a specific business issue by telling SpeechMiner UI what phrases to

look for. For example, if you want to identify interactions in which the customer wishes to cancel an account, you

could create a topic named Cancellation with the following phrases:

"Close out my account"

"I need to cancel"

Topics can also be used to improve the overall speech recognition of the system in two main ways:

Directly: For example, the word “cinnamon” may appear frequently in calls when “cinema” was actually said.

You could enter a number of phrases in the topic related to “cinema” in order to improve the transcription

results. This assumes that you do not need to report on calls related to “cinema”. That is, because the topic is a

collection of mostly unrelated phrases, it is not very useful for reporting. In order to run reports on “cinema”, it

is recommended to place the phrases in a topic that has a common business meaning.

Indirectly: Consider the scenario in which “account number” is a phrase that is important to capture, but its

accuracy is low due to a number of false positives being generated because “phone number” is recognized as

“account number”. Adding the phrase “phone number” to the topic could potentially draw those false positives

away from “account number”. Placing “phone number” in a topic implies that it is not important to run reports

on “phone number”. For the incorrectly-recognized and undesired “cinnamon” appearing in transcripts, it is

recommended to try to remove it (and therefore correctly recognize “cinema”) by adding “cinnamon” into the

topic with strictness set at 100. Various phrases with additional context (for example, “late night cinnamon”)

may work better than using the single-word phrase “cinnamon”.

More specifically, topics are a collection of phrases defined globally for the SpeechMiner UI system, and included in

one or more programs as required. When a topic is included in a program, SpeechMiner UI searches for all of the

phrases included in the topic's definition, in all the interactions associated with the Program. When one of the phrases

is found, SpeechMiner UI identifies it as a linguistic event and registers the topic as found at a specific time during the

interaction.

Each linguistic event identified by SpeechMiner UI in an interaction has a start time, an end time, a name, and a type.

For example, if a topic called "Loan Offer" is identified by the phrase "can offer you a loan," the start time is when the

agent began saying "can," the end time is when the agent finished saying "loan," the name is "Loan Offer," and the type

of event is "Topic."

Although a topic can contain one phrase, the more phrases you add the more useful the topic.

Once a topic is created, you can always make modifications based on the accuracy of the results that the topic is

achieving.

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Tags

Interaction Properties

Audit and Implementation

Email Search

Date Range:

Enables you to filter for the Search Results grid according to a specific date range.

All: The default value that includes all interactions in the database.

Yesterday: Filter interactions recorded on the previous day from 00:00 until 23:59.

Today: Filter interactions recorded on the same day from 00:00 until the exact time the search is performed.

Week to Date: Filter interactions recorded from the beginning of the current week (the last Sunday at 00:00)

until the exact time and date the search is performed.

Note: In the U.S., the week starts on Sundays and ends on Saturdays; for users with Europe-localized versions

of the software the week starts on Mondays and ends on Sundays.

Last 7 Days: Filter interactions from seven days prior to today (at 00:00) until the exact time and date the

search is performed.

Last Week: Filter interactions from the beginning through the end of the previous week.

Month to Date: Filter interactions from the first day of the current month at 00:00 until the exact time and date

the search is performed.

Last 30 Days: Filter interactions from thirty days prior to today (at 00:00) until the exact time and date the

search is performed.

Last Month: Filter interactions from 00:00 on the first day until 23:59 on the last day of the previous month.

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Quarter to Date: Filter interactions from 00:00 on the first day of the current quarter until the exact time and

date the search is performed.

Last 90 Days: Filter interactions from 90 days prior to today (at 00:00) until the exact time and date the

search is performed.

Last Quarter: Filter interactions from 00:00 on the first day until 23:59 on the last day of the previous quarter.

Custom: Filter interactions from any date and time range selected from the two drop-down windows

displayed. You can specify the exact day, month, year, hour and minute for both the beginning and end dates.

Note: The times given are directly associated with the time zone at which your Web server is deployed, and

therefore are not necessarily the same as the time where you are physically located.

Terms & Topics:

Enables you to filter for interactions according to a one or more terms or phrases that must be part of the interaction. ,

topic and/or speaker.

Text field: Enter the term(s) or phrase(s) to search for.

Topics: Select one or more topics from the list to search for.

Limit to: Select one or more Speaker Types from the list.

Only interactions found in one of the following situations are included in the search results:

Interactions with only one audio channel (the system cannot identify who is speaking), where at least one

of the selected Speaker Types were involved in the interaction.

For example, the topic Payments was found at least once in the interaction and one of the participants in

the interaction was a speaker of type Agent.

Interactions with more than one audio channel (the system identifies who is speaking at every moment in

the interaction), where at least one of the selected Speaker Types mentioned the required topics and/or

terms at least once in the interaction.

For example, the Agent in the interaction talked about the topic Payments.

Categories & Programs:

Enables you to filter the Search Results grid according to categories and/or programs. Only interactions in which at

least one category/program is identified are included in the search results.

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Categories: Select one or more categories that should be associated with the interaction(s) you are searching

for.

Programs: Select one or more programs that should be associated with the interaction(s) you are searching for.

Agents & Work Groups:

From the lists provided select any combination of agents and work groups to include in your search.

You can also choose to search for the "current user" rather than a specific agent or work group. In this case, the

condition changes depending on which user runs the report.

If you select a work group, all the agents in the work group are included in the search condition.

When creating an Agent, if you create a username but you do not enter a firstname and lastname in the fields provided,

the specific Agent's name will appear blank in the Search Filter > Agents & Workgroups list.

Metadata:

Metadata is collected by the recording system and relayed by it to SpeechMiner UI. The types of available metadata

vary from system to system.

The Metadata filter enables you to filter the search results for selected metadata and metadata values.

The search results will only include interactions for which the selected types of metadata have defined values and when

you specify values that match the specified conditions.

Three types of metadata values can be used in the conditions you define:

String of text (for example, "Detroit")

Decimal number (for example, "10" or "32.5")

Date

Dates must be entered manually in the same format used in your SpeechMiner UI UI interface. For example, if your

system represents dates in format: mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm, you would enter Oct 24, 2013 at 10 AM as 10/24/2013

10:00;.

The format used in your system is specified in the webserviceparams table, in the ''globalDateFormat'' parameter.

For additional information, please consult your system administrator.

To define a metadata filter:

1. In the Explore > Search page, under Metadata,select to Include/Exclude the metadata.

Note: If you only want to specify that the interactions must have values for the specific metadata type, but any

value is acceptable, you only need to select the name of the metadata type. You do not have to perform the

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remaining steps of this procedure.

2. Select the type of metadata from the list provided.

3. Click Values to configure the metadata.

4. In the first field, select:

Equals to specify a specific value for the metadata type.

Between to define a range of values. When you select Between an additional field is added to the box.

5. To add an additional OR condition, click the Add icon to add a line in the box and fill it in as explained

above.

6. Click outside the box to close the box.

Comments:

Enables you to filter the Search Results grid for interactions that contain comments made by selected users.

Blank text field: The text that must appear in one of the interaction comments. Only interactions that contain

comments in which this text is found are included in the search results.

Note: If you leave the text field blank interactions that contain comments from the selected users are included in

the search results regardless of the comments contents.

User: searches for the user(s) who added a comment to the interaction when playing the interaction. Only

interactions that contain comments from the selected users are included in the search results.

Good : searches for the user(s) who selected Good when adding a comment to the interaction during

playback.

Neutral : searches for the user(s) who selected Neutral when adding a comment to the interaction during

playback.

Bad : searches for the user(s) who selected Bad when adding a comment to the interaction during playback.

User Actions:

Enables you to filter the Search Results grid with interactions that were reviewed (played back or opened) by the

selected user(s).

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Segment:

Enables you to filter the Search Results grid according to segment ID's. See What is an Interaction? > Segment.

Under Segment select the number of segments to include in the search results. In the first field, select either Less Than,

Between, or More Than.

In the second text field or fields, fill in the amount of segments within an interaction that you want to search for.

Less Than: Search results include only interactions with a number of segments that is smaller than the value

you specified.

Between: Search results include interactions that include a number of segments that is more than the first value

and less than the second value.

More Than: Search results include only interactions that contain a number of segments that is more than the

value you specified.

Tags:

Tags enable you to label an interaction as a result of a specific action or a user-defined category. That is, a tag is

similar to a keyword that helps you identify an interaction, and enables you to generate better search results.

Tags can also help you indicate which interactions cannot be deleted, which interactions have been evaluated as part of

the Quality Management Evaluation Session and which interactions include a Screen Recording. The following three

tags are not user-defined.

Protect from Deletion / Unprotect from Deletion tag: The Protect / Unprotect from Deletion tag enables

you to search for interactions that cannot be deleted (see, Playback Controls row#13).

Evaluated tag: The Evaluated tag enables you to search for interactions that have already been part of an

evaluation session and subsequently prevents evaluated interactions from being reused (see, Perform an

Evaluation Session step #8).

Screen Recording tag: The Screen Recording tag enables you to search for interactions that include a screen

recording.

DISCLAIMER: The Screen Recording tag is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on

Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.

Note: The Tags filter is not available for Event and Screen Recording searches.

For additional information about how to create a tag, see Media Player Options and Define Tags.

To define a tag filter:

1. Select Include/Exclude. Select Exclude to define a negative condition. For example, when you select Exclude,

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the condition is met when none of the selections or values for the tag filter are found in the interaction(s).

2. Select one or more tags from the list provided.

3. Click Done.

Interaction Properties:

Enables you to filter the Search Results grid list according to:

Types: Select the type of interaction you are searching for (calls, email, chat, text or social interactions).

DISCLAIMER: The Text type is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For

details, refer to Supported Deployments.

Note: The Types selection is not offered if your system only includes audio interactions.

Languages: Set the language of the interactions you are searching for.

Note: In some systems some or all of the interactions do not undergo speech-recognition processing. In these

system the option No Speech Recognition appears in the Languages list. Select this value to include

interactions that did not undergo speech recognition.

Duration: Select the duration range of the interaction to include in the data set. In the first field, select either

Less Than, Between, or More Than.

In the second text field or fields, fill in the number of seconds.

Less Than: Search results include only interactions that are shorter than the value you specified.

Between: Search results include interactions whose duration's are longer than the first value and shorter than

the second value.

More Than: Search results include only interactions that are longer than the specified value.

Interaction ID: Search results include only interactions with the value(s) you entered for the ID. In this field,

you can enter up to 50 Interaction IDs.

External ID: Search results include only interactions with the value you entered for the ID. External ID is a

unique number assigned to the interaction by the external recording storage system.

Audit and Implementation:

Enables you to filter the Event Search Results grid according to confidence ratings and auditing results.

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Note: This group only appears if the Search Results grid is configured to only show events.

Confidence threshold: Select the minimum confidence value required. Only events whose confidence values

are at least this high are included in the Search Results grid.

Note: The confidence value is generated by SpeechMiner UI when the interactions are processed. It indicates

the reliability of the event identification. The higher the value, the greater the degree of certainty.

Term ID: Searches for the a term ID included in a topic.

Note: This field only appears if you have Event Audit permissions. Also, the term ID for each term found

during the search appears in the Event Search Results grid.

Exclude audited events: Select this check box to exclude interactions that have already been audited from the

search.

TP, FP, SFP: Select the required audit ratings. Only audited events whose ratings match one of the selected

types are included in the search results.

Email Search:

Email filters that enable you to search for email interactions based on information in the email header (for example,

from and to whom the email was sent).

From: The email addresses from where the email was sent.

To: The email addresses to whom the email was sent.

Cc: The email addresses that received a copy of the email.

Bcc: The email addresses that should not to be revealed to other recipients of the email.

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Explore Terms

SpeechMiner UI's Explore feature enables you to produce reports that graphically illustrate the distribution of specific

terms in a list of interaction(s).

The Explore feature is completely automated and is based on the analysis of interactions associated with a specific

search criteria.

The process produces a common-terms report that shows the most common term clusters in the generated data set.

When you initiate the Explore feature, the results are sent to you via email. You can also see the reports from the

Reports > Saved Reports tab.

DISCLAIMER:This feature is not available in our Cloud offering and in a Recording Only deployment. It is only

available on Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.

To run the Explore process on a specific search criteria:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Click the Search Filters icon to define the data set to use during the Explore process.

3. Select at least one language and only one interaction type. See Search Filter for additional information.

4. Click Explore.

5. Enter a name for the report.

6. Click OK. A message appears informing you that you will receive an email with a link to the report.

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Saved Searches

A Saved Search represents a group of interactions selected from a list of interactions that resulted due to a specific

filter criteria (created in the Explore > Filter panel).

Creating a Saved Search enables you to combine a collection of interactions associated with the same topic. You can

run this unique Saved Search whenever the

information the query generates is required.

To access the Saved Searches list:

1. Select Explore > Saved Searches.

The Saved Search tab is opened with the following options:

Drop down list: Find and select the user(s) whose saved searches you want to see.

Text field: Type a letter or sequence of letters that appears in the name of the saved search you want to

find.

Delete : Select one or more searches from the list and click Delete to remove them from the

system.

Compare saved searches : Select two searches to create a report the compares the two search

results.

Table: See column descriptions below.

Columns:

Checkbox : Select the check boxes to delete or compare.

Run: Click the Run icon to run the search and display the results in the Search Results grid. If the specific

search was a search for screen recordings, the Search Results grid will show a list of interactions with screen

recordings.

Delete: Click the Delete icon to delete the specific saved search.

Name: The name of the saved search.

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Creator: The name of the user who created the saved search.

Status: The status of the saved search.

Sharing: The names of the user groups and users with whom the search is shared. Click the Sharing icon

to share the saved search with others.

Created on: The date on which the search was created.

Coaching: Click Add to add the search to a Coaching session. See Coaching for additional information.

Permalink: Click Copy to create a Permalink to the specific saved search. You can copy this link to your

clipboard and then paste it elsewhere as necessary.

See Permalink for additional information.

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Compare Saved Searches

SpeechMiner UI enables you to compare two saved searches. The result is a report that shows how the two data sets

differ.

For example, you can compare two customer-service agent teams to learn which team has more interactions with

dissatisfied customers.

You can also compare two search results to see whether there are any noticeable differences with regard to the most

common terms in the interaction flows.

Note: You can only compare audio interactions. You cannot compare text interactions.

DISCLAIMER:This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To compare two Saved Searches (two data sets):

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Click to open the Filter panel.

3. Define the search criteria for the data set you want to compare. See Create a New Search for additional

information.

4. In the Filter panel, click Save As to save the new search.

5. Repeat the steps above to define the second data set for the comparison.

6. Select Explore > Saved Searches.

7. Select the check boxes associated with the two Saved Searches you want to compare.

8. Click Compare in the top right corner of the screen.

9. In the Report Name field, enter a name for the comparison report.

10. From the Categories and Topic lists, select the categories and topics you want to compare in relation to the

two Saved Searches you selected.

11. Click Run. The report will appear in the Saved Reports list and you will receive an email with a direct link to

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Interaction Lists

An Interaction list enables you to create a collection of one or more interactions about a specific issue.

The list is made up of interactions that you manually select from the Search Results grid and add to the list.

You can add an interaction to an existing Interaction list or you can create a new Interaction list.

An Interaction list can be created from:

Search Results list

Interaction Lists tab

To create an Interaction list from the Search Results grid:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Run a search for the interaction(s) you want to add to the interaction list. See: Create a New Search.

3. Select the interactions you want to add to the new Interaction list.

4. In the title of the check box column click the Batch Actions icon and select Add To.

5. Select Interaction List.

6. Click New Interaction List to create a new list with the selected interactions.

7. Click OK. The selected interactions are added to the selected interaction list.

To create an Interaction list from the Interaction Lists tab:

1. Select Explore > Interaction Lists.

The Interaction Lists tab is opened with the following options:

Drop down list: Find and select the user(s) whose interaction lists you want to see.

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Text field: Type a letter or sequence of letters that appears in the name of the interaction list you want to

find.

Delete : Select one or more lists from the interaction list and click Delete to remove them from the

system.

Rename an Interaction list : Select the interaction list whose name you want to change. Click the

Rename icon and give the list a new name.

Table: See column descriptions below:

Checkbox : Select the check boxes to delete or rename.

Run: Click the Run icon to run the interaction list and display the results in the Search Results

grid. If the specific search was a search for screen recordings, the Search Results grid will show a

list of interactions with screen recordings.

Delete: Click the Delete icon to delete the specific interaction.

Name: The name of the interaction.

Creator: The name of the user who created the interaction.

Sharing: The names of the user groups and users with whom the search is shared. Click

the Sharing icon to share the interaction with others.

Created on: The date on which the search was created.

Coaching: Click Add to add the search to a Coaching session. See Coaching for additional

information.

Permalink: Click Copy to create a Permalink to the specific interaction. You can copy this link to

your clipboard and then paste it elsewhere as necessary.

See Permalink for additional information.

2. Click the Create a new Interaction list icon .

3. Enter a name for the new list.

4. Click OK.

5. Add interactions to the new list.

a. Select Explore > Search.

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b. Select interactions from the Search Results grid.

c. Click the Batch Actions icon and select Add To.

d. Select Interaction List.

e. Select the list you created at the beginning of this procedure.

f. Click Add.

6. Verify the interactions were added to the new Interaction list.

a. Select Explore > Interaction Lists.

b. Click the run icon to run the new list.

c. Review the Search Results grid and verify that the interactions you selected were added to the list.

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Content Browser

Content Browser enables you to view the interactions associated with specific categories, agents and programs. For

example, selecting the category option will produce a list of all the categories and their sub-categories associated with

one or more interactions.

With Content Browser you can filter your selection further by selecting an additional search criterion. For example,

you can select to search for interactions associated with categories and a specific program. If you selected a category

and a program called"debt", the result will be a list of all the categories associated with interactions that are also

associated with the program "debt".

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering and in a Recording Only deployment. It is only

available on Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments

To search for interactions associated with a specific category, agent or program:

1. Select Explore > Content Browser.

2. From the Explore list select the type of interaction distribution you are interested in seeing.

3. From the Filter By list select an additional criterion type for the interaction distribution.

4. From the Any list select the specific criterion.

For example, if you select Work group in the Filter By list, you must select the specific work group name. If you

select Any then all work groups associated with a category in the list will be part of the search results.

The Content Browser list is automatically refreshed and updated with every selection you make and is displayed

in a table with the following columns:

Classified Interactions: The list of categories, programs or agents that are associated with an

interaction.

Language: The language the program is associated with when created in SMART.

Last Call: The date and time of the last interaction the specific agent took part in.

Last updated: The last date on which the specific program was updated.

Number of Agents: The number of agents the agent manages.

Number of Interactions: The number of interactions associated with the category, agent or program.

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Percentage:

Category percentage: The percentage of interactions associated with the category compared

with all the categories in the list.

Sub-category percentage: The percentage of interactions associated with the sub-category

compared with all the sub-categories within the specific category.

Priority: The priority level given to the program in SMART.

For more information about SMART refer to the SMART User Manual.

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Trending

The Trending page is designed to help you monitor and analyze terms and phrases within conversations and identify

and explore familiar and unexpected trends. By analyzing term trends within a specific interaction set over specific time

periods and/or according to a variety of search criteria (for example, agent and/or customer side, metadata, duration,

categories, topics, agents, work groups, language and so on), Trending enables you to better understand emerging

business issues, pinpoint events that may require close attention, identify process or service issues before they escalate

and recognize strengths and weaknesses of the organization’s employees, products, and processes.

The data in the Trending page is based on an automated analysis of interaction transcripts together with the

identification of changes in the frequency with which a term/phrase appears in interactions. Term/phrase frequency is

the number of interactions within which the term/phrase is found divided by the entire set of interactions during a given

time period, expressed as a percentage. For example, if during a specific time period a phrase was used in 350 out of

1000 interactions; the phrase frequency for that given time period is (350/1000)*100% = 35%.

Terms/phrases appear in the Trending chart according to a salience measurement (for example, relative importance

measurement). Terms and phrases with a high salience measurement will be included in the Trending chart. The

purpose of the salience measurement is to filter out common terms/phrases (for example, thank you), to make room

for significant terms and phrases.

Trending requires no input from users about what terms and phrases should be found within the interactions, and for

this reason the information in the Trending page can help you identify issues and trends that are unforeseen or

unexpected.

From the Trending page you can create and save Trending charts that show the distribution of terms and phrases

within a selected interaction set. The relative frequency of terms and phrases is visualized using a bubble chart. The

bubble chart (see image below) provides at-a-glance insight on four dimensions:

Size: The size of the bubble is proportionate to the number of times the term or phrase appears in the

interaction set. The larger the bubble’s radius, the more the term or phrase is used within the interaction set.

Color: The bubbles are shaded red or green and represent the change in frequency. The deeper the shading the

larger the frequency change. Red represents a negative (reduction) in frequency and green represents a positive

(increase) in frequency for that particular term.

Comparison: Bubbles that contain a dotted line circle indicate a term or phrase that appear in the selected

interaction set in both Period 1 and Period 2. For example, if you are viewing the Period 1 tab, the dotted line

represents the term/phrase frequency in Period 2 and vice versa.

Cluster: Bubbles connected with lines represent a collection of terms and phrases within the interaction set that

have a strong semantic similarity.

Bubble Chart Example:

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This visual representation enables you to quickly identify the terms and phrases with the highest and lowest frequency,
and any deviation from regular term frequencies. This enables users to surface and analyze trends that might otherwise
go undetected. After recognizing the terms and phrases that have the strongest or weakest correlation, you can refine
your search results accordingly, to search for the interactions most related to the business issue you are investigating. 
For detailed information about how to configure and interpret the Trending page, refer to the following: 
Create a Trending Filter  
Create a Custom Trending Cluster Task
Trending Filter Toolbar Description
Trending Filter Tool Tip Description
Trending Filter Chart Data Description
Analyze Related Words  
Manage the Blacklist
Working with Saved Trending Filters    
 
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Create a Trending Filter

With the Trending Filter you can create Trending charts (a cloud of bubbles) that are a visual representation of the

relative frequency of terms within a specific interaction set over specific time periods and/or according to a variety of

search criteria.

To create a new Trending Filter:

1. Select Explore > Trending.

2. From the Trending Filter list, select one of the following time frames:

Top terms intra-day: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases included in all of the

interactions in the system 3 hours prior to the current time.

Top terms today compared to yesterday: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases

included in all of the interactions in the system 24 hours prior to the current time.

Top terms today compared to the past week: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases

included in all of the interactions in the system 7 days prior to the current day.

Top terms today compared to the same day a week ago: Displays the most frequently used terms

and phrases included in all of the interactions in the system exactly one week from today. For example, if

you are creating the Trending filter on Monday, September 26th, 2016, the filter will search for terms and

phrases on Monday, September 19th, 2016.

Custom: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases included in all of the interactions in the

system according to the selected Basic and/or Advanced filter options.

3. Configure one or more of the Basic and/or Advanced filters. For more information, refer to the Trending Filter

Toolbar Description.

Note: If you select one of the top terms filters and then change Relative to Fixed, Monitor and/or Compare,

the Trending Filter list will change to Custom.

4. Click Run. The bubble chart and corresponding chart data appear on the screen. Refer to the following pages

for explanations about how to interpret the Trending chart:

Trending Filter Toolbar Description

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Trending Filter Tool Tip Description

Trending Filter Chart Data Description

5. Click Save to save the Trending Filter. The Save Trending Filter window appears.

6. In the Trending Filter Name enter a name for the filter and in the Description (optional) field enter a

description.

Note: You can turn the Trending Filter into a Trending Cluster Task, by selecting the Create a Trending

Cluster Task option.

7. Click Confirm to save the Trending Filter / Trending Cluster Task.

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Create a Custom Trending Cluster Task

Similar to a Trending Filter, a custom Trending Cluster Task enables you to create Trending charts (a cloud of bubbles)

that are a visual representation of the relative frequency of terms within a specific interaction set over specific time

periods and/or according to a variety of search criteria. The difference is that the results of a custom Trending Cluster

Task are potentially more accurate than the basic Trending Filter results.

If you create a Trending Cluster Task, keep in mind that the potentially greater accuracy level of the results imposes

the following constraints:

By default you can only create five Trending Cluster Tasks.

This default is a database configuration that can be changed. For details, refer to the Working with

Exploration (Trending) page in the SpeechMiner UI Administration Guide.

Note: A Trending Cluster Task configured with a Fixed time period is not counted toward the five Trending

Cluster Tasks since it is a one-time task. Only a Trending Cluster Task created with a Relative time period is

counted toward the five Trending Cluster Tasks. The number of existing Trending Cluster Tasks is specified

above the Saved Trending Filters grid. If you attempt to create a Trending Cluster Task when your limit has

been reached, the system will inform you that you cannot create an additional Trending Cluster Task until you

remove an existing task.

To manage Trending Cluster Tasks, you must be granted the Manage Trending Cluster Tasks permission.

The first time you run a Trending Cluster Task, it will take longer to process its results than the Trending Filter

task. Subsequent runs should not be longer.

Note: Because accurate Trending Cluster Task results take longer to generate, it is recommended that you first save

the Trending Cluster Task and run it at a later time. When you run the task, periodically monitor the results until you

see a good data offset. The data offset (shown in hours), represents the accuracy deviation of the task results. A

good generic data offset is less than 20% of the selected time period.

To create a new Trending Cluster Task:

1. Select Explore > Trending.

2. Select Create a Trending Cluster Task.

3. From the Trending Filter list, select one of the following time frames:

Top terms intra-day: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases included in all of the

interactions in the system 3 hours prior to the current time.

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Top terms today compared to yesterday: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases

included in all of the interactions in the system 24 hours prior to the current time.

Top terms today compared to the past week: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases

included in all of the interactions in the system 7 days prior to the current day.

Top terms today compared to the same day a week ago: Displays the most frequently used terms

and phrases included in all of the interactions in the system exactly one week ago from today. For

example, if you are creating the Trending filter on Monday, September 26th, 2016, the filter will search

for terms and phrases on Monday, September 19th, 2016.

Custom: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases included in all of the interactions in the

system according to the selected Basic and/or Advanced filter options.

4. Configure one or more of the Basic and/or Advanced filters. For more information, refer to the Trending Filter

Toolbar Description.

Note:

If you select one of the top terms filters and then change Relative to Fixed, Monitor and/or Compare,

the Trending Filter list will change to Custom.

To create a Trending Cluster Task for fixed dates older than two weeks, the default purging fragments

value must be changed. For details, refer to the Purging Fragments Configuration tab in

the Additional Configurations page in the SpeechMiner UI Administration Guide.

5. Click Save to save the Trending Cluster Task and enter a Trending Filter Name and Description in

the Save Trending Filter window.

Since Trending Cluster Task results take longer to generate, it is recommended that you first save the Trending

Cluster Task and run it at a later time.

Note: When you only have a View Trending Cluster Task Information permission, selecting Save As to

save a Cluster filter creates a regular Trending filter. For details refer to the Trending section in the Web Site

Permissions page.

6. Click Confirm and then Close when you see the Saved Successfully message. The Saved Trending Filters

page opens with the list of all the saved Trending Filters and Trending Cluster Tasks.

7. From the Saved Trending Filters list, select the specific Trending Cluster Task and click Run in the Trending

Filter page that opens.

The bubble chart and corresponding chart data appear on the screen. Refer to the following pages for

explanations about how to interpret the Trending chart:

Trending Filter Toolbar Description

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Trending Filter Tool Tip Description

Trending Filter Chart Data Description

Note: In the bottom right corner of the bubble chart, you will see the Details icon . Clicking this icon

provides the following details for the comparison or period tab. A Trending Filter that is not a Trending Cluster Task

will not contain these details.

Period 1 / 2: The Time Period for the data tab.

Data offset: Represents the accuracy deviation of the task results in hours. The lower the number the better

the accuracy.

Interactions: The number of interactions represented by the data in the tab.

Last Run: The last time the Trending Cluster Task was run.

Language: The interaction language.

Type: The type of interactions. For example, audio, email, video and so on.

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Trending Filter Toolbar Description

You can refine your Trending Filter with the options available in the Explore > Trending page.

Once you select the type of Trending Filter you want to create, you can refine your Trending Filter using the options in

the following areas:

Chart Tools

Basic Filter

Advanced Filter

Trending Filter

Top terms intra-day: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases included in all of the interactions in

the system 3 hours prior to the current time.

Top terms today compared to yesterday: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases included in

all of the interactions in the system 24 hours prior to the current time.

Top terms today compared to the past week: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases included

in all of the interactions in the system 7 days prior to the current day.

Top terms today compared to the same day a week ago: Displays the most frequently used terms and

phrases included in all of the interactions in the system exactly one week from today. For example, if you are

creating the Trending filter on Monday, September 26th, 2016, the filter will search for terms and phrases on

Monday, September 20th, 2016.

Custom: Displays the most frequently used terms and phrases included in all of the interactions in the system

according to the selected Basic and/or Advanced filter options.

Chart Tools

: Opens the Saved Trending Filters page. This option enables you to abort a session at any time. A prompt

enables you to confirm or cancel your decision.

: Manually refreshes the chart view. This fetches the latest data generated by the system in the back end, and

influences the time stamp of the visualization currently being viewed.

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: Opens the Blacklist. The blacklist is used to manage a permanent set of excluded terms/phrases in

the Trending data. Users with permissions are able to add and delete items from the list as necessary. For

additional information, refer to Manage the Blacklist.

Create a Trending Cluster Task: Enables you to create a Trending Cluster Task. For additional information,

refer to Create a Custom Trending Cluster Task.

Run: Applies the configured filter to the data set to produce the Trending chart.

Reset: Reset the current filter configuration to its default state.

Chart tabs: Displays three views of the data that visualize trending information for the selected time period.

Comparison: Shows the entire data set for both Period 1 and Period 2.

Period 1: Shows the data set for the dates selected for Period 1.

Period 2: Shows the data set for the dates selected for Period 2.

Note: The Period tabs for a Relative Trending Cluster Task includes Data Offset information. Data Offset

represents the accuracy deviation of the task results in hours. The lower the number the better the accuracy.

Layout: Allows you to control how data is viewed in the Trending page. A user is now able to select one of the

following three layouts.

Combination: Shows both the chart and the chart tables. When the Combination layout is selected, the

user can use the Resize bar to change the size of each area.

Chart: Only shows the Trending chart.

Table: Only shows the Top # Terms and Top Movers tables.

Note: The Ignore Blacklist option in the Layout menu allows the terms and phrases in the Blacklist to be

included in the Trending chart. When this option is turned on, the phrases appear in the Trending view with a

dark border. For additional information, refer to Manage the Blacklist. Top # Terms and Top Movers

Trending Report last referenced on : Displays chart details that tell you when the specific report was

created and last changed.

Show chart data: Shows/hides a panel underneath the Trending chart. The panel shows in-depth information

about the visualization at hand, and changes accordingly based on the user’s selections and activities. For

additional information, refer to Trending Filter Chart Data Description.

Save: Enables you to save (or save and rename) the current Trending filter. For additional information, see

Working with Saved Trending Filters.

Search Term: Enables you to search for a specific term and/or phrase within the Trending chart results.

Details:

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Period 1/2: The Time Period for the data tab.

Data offset: Represents the accuracy deviation of the task results in hours. The lower the number the

better the accuracy.

Interactions: The number of interactions represented by the data in the tab.

Last Run: The last time the Trending Cluster Task was run.

Language: The interaction language.

Type: The type of interactions. For example, audio, email, video and so on.

Note: A Trending Filter that is not a Trending Cluster Task will not contain these details.

Basic Filter

Time Period - Relative:

Monitor: Select an amount and time period (for example, 3 days) for which you want to analyze terms

and phrases. Monitor results appear in the Period 1 tab.

Compare: Select one of the following options. Results of your selection will be compared to the Monitor

selection you made and will appear in the Period 2 tab.

Same period as before: Analyze all the terms and phrases in the period before the monitor

period. For example, if you selected 3 minutes in the Monitor option at 22:00, the Compare

period will be 21:57-22:00.

Same period as yesterday: Analyze all the terms and phrases 24 hours before the monitor

period. For example, if you selected 3 hours in the Monitor option at 22:00 on Thursday, March

29, 2016, the Compare period will be from 19:00-22:00 on Wednesday, March 28, 2016.

Same period last week: Analyze all the terms and phrases during the same day exactly a week

before the monitor period. For example, if you selected 3 hours in the Monitor option at 10pm on

Thursday 29, 2016, the Compare period will be from 7pm-10pm on Thursday, March 22, 2016.

Previous week including yesterday: Analyze all the terms and phrases for 7 days prior to the

monitor period. For example, if you select 1 day in the Monitor option on Thursday, March 29,

2016, the Compare period will be the entire data set during the last week, plus one day.

Specific date range: Analyze all the terms and phrases from any date and time range selected

from the two drop-down windows displayed. You can specify the exact day, month, year, hour

and minute for both the beginning and end dates. For example, if you select 7 hours in the Monitor

option on Thursday, March 29, 2016, the system will compare the terms and phrases in those 7

hours to all the terms and phrases that appear during the entire specific date range.

Time Period - Fixed: In the fields provided select the date ranges for which you want to compare terms and

phrases. Results for Period 1 and Period 2, will appear in their respective tabs at the top of the chart.

Note: The Comparison tab includes all the terms and phrases from both periods.

Speakers:

Agent: Show terms and phrases spoken onlyby the agent.

Customer: Show Terms and phrases spoken onlyby the customer.

All Speakers: Show terms and phrases spoken by the agent and/or the customer.

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Interaction Properties:

Types: Select the type of interaction whose terms and phrases you want to analyze (calls, emails, chat,

text or social media).

DISCLAIMER: The Text type is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on

Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.

Languages: Select the language of the interactions whose terms and phrases you want to analyze.

Duration: Select the duration range of the interactions to include in the data set. In the first field select

either Less Than, Between, or More Than. In the second text field or fields, fill in the number of seconds.

Max terms per period: The maximum number of terms/phrases visible (that is, the number of chart bubbles)

in each Period 1 and Period 2 tabs. The Comparison tab contains the terms/phrases that appear in Period 1

and Period 2 tab.

Advanced Filter

Metatdata: Enables you to filter the results for selected metadata and metadata values. The results will only

include terms and phrases associated with interactions for which the selected types of metadata have defined

values and when you specify values that match the specified conditions.

Terms & Topics: Enables you to filter for interactions according to one or more terms or phrases that must

either be part of the interaction and topic, or excluded from both.

Text field: Enter the term(s) or phrase(s) to search for.

Topics: Select one or more topics from the list to search for.

Include: Select if the term and phrase must be included or excluded from the interaction set.

Categories & Programs: Enables you to filter the interaction set according to categories and/or programs.

Only interactions in which at least one category/program term and/or phrase is identified are included in the

results.

Categories: Select one or more categories that should be associated with the term and/or phrase you

are searching for.

Programs: Select one or more programs that should be associated with the term and/or phrase you are

searching for.

Agents & Workgroups: From the lists provided select any combination of agents and workgroups whose

terms and phrases you want to include/exclude in your results. If you select a workgroup, all the agents in the

workgroup are included in the search condition.

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Trending Chart Tool Tip Description

The bubble chart that appears after you run the Trending Filter includes a variety of information that enables you to

better understand the changes and distribution of terms and phrases within a selected interaction set.

Significant information about a specific term/phrase and additional options are available in the term/phrase tool tip.

From the tool tip you can:

View the chart data numerically.

Hide the term/phrase from the chart data.

Add the term/phrase to the Blacklist.

Create an interaction search.

Discover the terms/phrases that are related to the selected term/phrase.

The following image is an example of the Trending chart tool tip. For details about the tool tip refer to the list below.

Name: The term/phrase for which the specific tool tip appears.

Trend: Shows the frequency change for the selected term/phrase. The red arrow indicates that the specific

term/phrase appears less frequently and the green arrow indicates that it appears more frequently.

Total Interactions:

Period 1: Indicates the number of interactions in which the term/phrase appeared, out of the total

number of interactions for the specific Period 1 data set.

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Period 2: Indicates the number of interactions in which the term/phrase appeared, out of the total

number of interactions for the specific Period 2 data set.

Search Interactions: Performs a search for all the interactions in which the specific term/phrase appears. The

search is performed for interactions that appear in the specified period's data range. For more information about

searching for interactions, refer to Create a New Search.

Show Related Words: Displays additional analysis of term clusters and their prevalence in the selected time

period. For more information, refer to Analyze Related Words.

Hide: Hides the specific term/phrase from the Trending chart view.

Note: The chart statistics include the hidden term/phrase. Also, refreshing the entire Trending page shows all

the hidden terms/phrases.

Add to Blacklist: Adds the specific term/phrase to the global blacklist for all users, views and languages. For

additional information, refer to Manage the Blacklist.

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Trending Chart Data Description

You can further analyze the relevance of a term/phrase, by studying the information panel that accompanies the

Trending bubble chart. By default the information

shown underneath the chart shows data about the current Trending Filter, and changes accordingly based on your

selections and activities in the chart.

You can use the information panel to view statistical information about all interactions, or about a specific subset of

interactions from your search results.

For detailed information about each option refer to:

Top Terms/Phrases

Term/Phrase Drill Down

Top Terms/Phrases:

At the bottom of the bubble chart (as shown in the following image), there are two lists (Top # Terms and Top

Movers). The two lists enable you to view the most

frequently used terms/phrases during the selected time period and the terms/phrases with the highest change in

frequency during the same time. For details, see the table below:

Top Movers: Lists the terms/phrases that had the highest frequency change in the between Period 1 and

Period 2. The red arrow indicates that the specific term/phrase appears less frequently and the green arrow

indicates that it appears more frequently. Enables you to sort the term/phrase list to show all

the terms/phrases, only those with a decrease in frequency, only those with an increase in frequency or only the

terms/phrases that had no change. Enables you to view the frequency change as a percentage or a

number.

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Top # Terms: The terms/phrases that stand out among the entire data set for the selected time period.

: Indicates the number of terms/phrases visible, hidden, and filtered (added to the Blacklist)

in the Top # Terms list.

Statistics:

United: Indicates the number of terms/phrases that appear both in Period 1 and Period 2

Unique to Period 1: Indicates the number of terms/phrases that only appear in Period 1.

Unique to Period 2: Indicates the number of terms/phrases that only appear in Period 2.

Total Interactions: Indicates the number of terms/phrases that appear in Period 1 and the number of

terms/phrases that appear in Period 2.

Term List:

Term: Indicates the term/phrase that appears in the interactions for the selected time periods.

Highest: Indicates the highest frequency for the specific term/phrase among all of the interactions for the

selected time periods.

Count (P1): Indicates the number of times the specific term/phrase appeared in Period 1.

Count (P2): Indicates the number of times the specific term/phrase appeared in Period 2.

Rank (P1): Reveals the importance and prominence of the specific term in Period 1. The higher the

number, the more prominent the term.

Rank (P2): Reveals the importance and prominence of the specific term in Period 2. The higher the

number, the more prominent the term.

Visible: Indicates whether or not the specific term/phrase is visible in the bubble chart and information

panel at the bottom of the chart.

: Enables you to add/remove a column from the Term list table.

: Enables you to view statistics about a term/phrase that is not shown in the bubble chart and list because it

was added to the Blacklist. For example, the following image indicates that the term notes and its

corresponding statistics will not appear in or be apart of the Trending chart because it was added to

the Blacklist.

: Enables you to hide or show all the terms/phrases from the chart. For example, if you select the

Period 1 tab and hide all the terms/phrases, in the Comparison tab you will be able to view the terms/phrases

that only appear in Period 2 and not in Period 1.

Note: To hide a specific term/phrase, hover over the term/phrase name. Click the eye icon that appears to hide

the term/phrase.

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: Enables you to search for a specific term/phrase within the Top # Terms list .

Term/Phrase Drill Down:

When you click one of the bubbles in the Trending chart, the information panel at the bottom of the screen changes (as

shown in the following image) and shows trend data specifically about the selected term/phrase. For details, see the list

below.

Note: Click outside the bubble chart to return to the previous view.

Note: The top left corner of the information panel contains the specific term/phrase selected from the bubble chart.

For example, in the above image the term tickets was selected.

Interaction Trend: The bar graph shows changes over time in relation to how often the specific term/phrase

was found. The graph shows the percentage of interactions that included the term/phrase in each period.

Total Interactions: Indicates the number of interactions that contain the specific term/phrase out of all the

interactions in the specific period.

Trend: Indicates the frequency change for the selected term/phrase during the specified time

period. The red arrow indicates that the specific term/phrase appears less frequently and the green arrow

indicates that it appears more frequently.

Similar Words: A list of the terms/phrases with the strongest correlation to the selected term/phrase. The list

consists of terms/phrases spoken in the same context and therefore can be helpful in identifying topics in which

the terms have been used. For example, synonyms and antonyms such as: answer, question, respond / calm,

nervous, peaceful / costly, cheap, expensive and so on.

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Manage the Blacklist

The Blacklist list is a collection of terms/phrases permanently ignored by the system when analyzing Trending data.

The list affects all users, views and languages.

To manage the Blacklist:

1. Click the Blacklist button . The following window opens:

2. Click Add Term to add a term/phrase to the list.

3. In the text field that appears type the term/phrase you want to add to the list and click .

4. To remove a term/phrase from the blacklist, click next to the term/phrase you want to remove from the list.

5. Click Confirm to save your changes.

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Note: You can add a term/phrase to the blacklist from the Trending Filter Tool Tip and you can configure the Trending

page to ignore the blacklist using the Ignore Blacklist option, allowing the terms/phrases in the Blacklist to be included

in the Trending chart. When this option is turned on, the phrases appear in the Trending view with a dark border.

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Working with Saved Trending Filters

Saving a Trending Filter is useful when you want to analyze historical trends and/or run the same filter during a different

time period. This option prevents you from having to define the filter criteria manually each time you want to run the

same filter.

From the Saved Trending Filters list you can add, edit and delete a Trending Filter.

The following image is an example of Saved Trending Filters list. For details about how to work with saved Trending

Filters, refer to the following sections:

Edit a Saved Trending Filter

Copy a Saved Trending Filter

Delete a Saved Trending Filter

Create a new Trending Filter

Run a Trending Filter

Activate a Trending Cluster Task

Saved Trending Filter Columns

Edit a Saved Trending Filter

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1. Select Explore > Saved Trending Filters.

2. In the Trending Filter Name column, click the name of the filter you want to edit. The filter is opened.

3. Change the filter and click Save.

Note: If you have not been given the Manage Trending Cluster Tasks permission, you cannot edit a Trending

Cluster Task filter. Instead, you will have to create a copy of the filter using Save As.

Copy a Saved Trending Filter

1. Select Explore > Saved Trending Filters.

2. Click the checkbox next to the name of the filter you want to copy and click the Clone button . The

Save Trending Filter window appears.

3. Edit the name, description and select whether or not to create a Cluster Task.

4. Click Confirm. A copy of the filter is added to the Saved Trending Filters list.

Delete a Saved Trending Filter

1. Select Explore > Saved Trending Filters.

2. Click the checkbox next to the name of the filter(s) you want to delete and click the Delete button . The

specific filter(s) are deleted from the Saved Trending Filters list.

Create a Trending Filter

1. Select Explore > Saved Trending Filters.

2. Click the New Trending Filter button. The Trending window is opened. For details, see

Create a Trending Filter.

Run a Trending Filter

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1. Select Explore > Saved Trending Filters.

2. Click the Trending Filter you want to run. The Trending Filter window is opened.

3. Click Run. The bubble chart and corresponding chart data appear on the screen.

Activate a Trending Cluster Task

1. Select Explore > Saved Trending Filters.

2. Locate the the Trending Filter you want to activate and in the Clustering Task column, turn on the option.

3. Click Activate. The Trending Filter is not a Trending Cluster Task.

Note: If the Trending Cluster Task limit was reached before you tried to activate a Trending Cluster Task, you will be

asked to deactivate an existing task before activating a new one.

Saved Trending Filter Columns

Trending Filter Name: Lists the terms/phrases that had the highest frequency change in the between Period 1

and Period 2. The red arrow indicates that the specific term/phrase appears less frequently and

the green arrow indicates that it appears more frequently. The name of the Trending Filter.

Description: The description given to the filter when it was saved.

Creator: The name of the user who created the Trending Filter.

Created: The date and time when the Trending Filter was created.

Time Period: Relative or Fixed. For details, refer to Basic Filter table in the Trending Filter Toolbar

Description page.

Cluster Task: Indicates if the specific Trending Filter is a Trending Cluster Task and enables you to turn a

Trending Filter into a Trending Cluster Task and vice versa.

Note: There is a limit to the number of Trending Cluster Tasks you can create. The number of existing Trending

Cluster Tasks is specified above the Saved Trending Filters grid. Also, if you attempt to create a Trending

Cluster Task when your limit has been reached, the system will inform you that you cannot create an additional

Trending Cluster Task until you remove an existing task.

Details:

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Period 1/2: The Time Period for the data tab.

Data offset: Represents the accuracy deviation of the task results in hours. The lower the number the

better the accuracy.

Interactions: The number of interactions represented by the data in the tab..

Note: The number of interactions in the Details window does not reflect the number of interactions

shown in the Top # Terms area of the Trending Chart. The information in the Trending Chart reflects the

current filter.

Last Run: The last time the Trending Cluster Task was run.

Language: The interaction language.

Type: The type of interactions. For example, audio, email, video and so on.

Note: A Trending Filter that is not a Trending Cluster Task will not contain these details.

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Export Trending Data

Exporting Trending data enables you to compare data across different Trending Filter results. The Trending data is

exported to a .csv file.

Before you export Trending data, consider the following:

Only data from the last Trending Filter that was run will be exported to a .csv file.

To view data specific to a Custom Trending Cluster Task, you must have the necessary Trending permissions. If

you do not have the correct permissions, N/A will appear.

The exported Trending data will include hidden terms and phrases, but it will not contain terms and phrases in

the Blacklist.

To export Trending data:

1. Select Explore > Trending / Saved Trending Filters.

2. Click Run.

3. Click Save > Export. A message appears reminding you that only the data from the results of the last time you

clicked Run will be exported to the .csv file.

4. Click Export. The .csv file is created.

5. Save the .csv file in a location of your choice.

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Media Player
 
The SpeechMiner UI Media Player enables you to play back the audio of recorded interactions. 
The Media Player provides a range of interaction playback features that can help you to:  
Quickly and easily find information associated with the specific interaction.
View events associated with the interaction. 
 
View an interaction's transcript. 
 
Add comments and view comments made by other users.
To activate the Media Player, click the Play icon   in the Search Results grid. The Media Player is displayed as a
timeline with various controls and a variety of information. If interactions are recorded with two audio channels (for
example, one for the agent and the other for the customer), the audio channels are shown on both sides of the audio
line (one speaker above and the other below).
 
Events (both linguistic and non-linguistic) and comments are indicated by icons above the audio graph. 
 
To learn more about how to work with the Media Player refer to the following sections:
Playback: Enables you to listen to a specific interaction.
Interaction Transcript: Enables you to view the words spoken during the interaction. 
 
Interaction Comments: Enables you to view other users ideas and thoughts about the interaction and provides
you with the option of making comments yourself.
Interaction Attributes: Enables you to view specific characteristics about the interaction you are playing.
Media Player Options: Enables you to perform numerous tasks associated with the interaction you are playing.  
 
Event Icons: Shows you when events are detected during the interaction. 
Note:
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To view Screen Recordings in Internet Explorer 10 and 11, you must enable the Miscellaneous > Access

data sources across domains in the Security Settings - Trusted Sizes Zone window.

Interaction are re-index when an interaction is played and when a comment is added or changed.

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Playback

The Media Player is activated above the Search Results grid when you select to play back an audio interaction, event

and/or screen recording.

Before you begin working with the Media Player consider the following:

You can play back an interaction from any point in the recording.

Playback always begins from the location of the marker in the audio graph.

When you play back an interaction from the Search Results grid, the marker moves to the beginning of the

interaction.

Playback begins automatically when the interaction is loaded.

The Media Player includes various playback controls that enable you to better analyze the specific interaction.

For additional information, see Playback Controls.

You can hide interaction audio and text to ensure confidentiality. For additional information see Hidden

Confidential Information.

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Playback Controls

The following image and table represent all of the available playback controls:

Note: The Quality Management media player contains fewer controls then the Media Player. For more information

about Quality Management, see Quality Management.

Media Player Options

The player controls:

- Play / Pause

- Play the next and previous event (inner control arrows).

- Play the next or previous interaction.

- Rewind the playback 5 seconds from the current marker location.

Control the speed at which the interaction is played. 1.0 is the default normal speed and every number above is

faster. For example, 2.0 is twice as fast as the normal speed.

Turn on/off the volume and select a volume level.

Show / Hide Screen Recording.

Note: If the screen recording is longer than the available audio an ACW (after call work) icon appears .

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The ACW icon appears on the playback timeline at the time that is equal to the duration of the audio media file. The

screen recording plays beyond the end of the audio file.

A menu with the following options:

Export: Export the interaction to a zip file.

Forward: Send the interaction to another user.

Add To...: Add the interaction to an interaction list or coaching session.

Tag: Add a tag to the interaction to create a connection between the specific interaction and a specific topic. For

more information, refer to Search > Tags.

Evaluate: Create an evaluation session (Ad-Hoc Evaluation) for the selected interaction. For details about how to

create and work with an Ad-Hoc evaluation, see Create an Ad-Hoc Evaluation Session.

Permalink: Copy a link to the specific interaction.

Protect from Deletion / Unprotect from Deletion: Tag the selected interaction with a Cannot Delete tag so that it

cannot be deleted, or conversely, remove the Cannot Delete tag from the selected interaction.

Only users with the Protect Interactions from Deletion permission, can add/remove the Cannot Delete tag.

Delete: Delete the specific interaction.

Retrieve Original Interaction: Restore the interaction with its original audio or text file (including all attachments).

The retrieved interaction is saved in the database as a URL. When this option is selected, a popup containing the URL

appears. The URL is supplied according to your browser's default behavior. If the browser is configured to download

the URL, the URL is provided as a file that you can open and/or save. If the browser is configured to open the URL in

a webpage, the URL will be opened in a separate webpage.

Note: For more information about some of these options, refer to the Batch Actions page.

Opens the player in a new separate window that can be enlarged to cover 2 monitors. Stretching the window

over 2 monitors enables you to view the recording more clearly.

Note:

This option behaves slightly differently in the QM Session Media Player. In the QM Evaluation Session page, the

Media Player in the Evaluation Session page is closed after this option is selected.

In the QM Session page you can open a separate Media Player window once.

From the Search Results page, you can open multiple Media Player windows at the same time.

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When a separate Media Player window is opened from the Search Results page, the following message appears at the

bottom of the screen. When you click this message, the last interaction that was opened in a new Media Player

window is closed.

Change the screen's brightness.

Lock/Unlock the playback with the scroll bar. When this option is turned Off, you can scroll towards the end of

the interaction before the playback reaches the same location. Turn this option On if you want the interaction to

automatically scroll so that the part of the interaction that is currently being played back is always visible. The scroll

bar moves automatically to keep up with the playback.

Indicates the specific interaction ID and agent name.

Return to the search results list. For example, if you are currently in the Interaction Transcript view, this option

will return you to the Search Results list.

These icons appear in the location of the recording where a comment was inserted. For details see

Interaction Comments. Note: These icons are not available for Events.

This icon appears in the location of the recording where an event occurred. For details see Interaction Events.

The following non-linguistic icons may appear on the playback timeline. For details see Interaction Events.

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This chat icon appears in the location of the recording when a chat conversation took place. Note: These icons

are not available for Events.

Note:

When an interaction includes a screen recording a screen will appear at the top of the Media Player. A screen

recording is a video of the agent's screen during the specific agent-customer interaction.

You can enlarge the screen with the Enlarge Screen option:

The Screen Recording option is not available for Events.

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Hidden Confidential Information

Interaction audio and text may be filtered in your system so that it is hidden from the users eyes. This is done to ensure

that confidential information cannot be accessed by users who do not have permission to do so. For this reason,

different users may have different permissions. As a result, certain parts of an interaction may be hidden for some users

but not for others.

The parts of an interaction that are hidden appear in the audio graph in gray rather than black. Likewise, the text

associated with the hidden parts of the interaction is not included in the interaction transcript and the Media Player

skips these areas during playback.

The following content can be hidden:

Sensitive Topics: Some topics may be defined in your system as Sensitive. This attribute is assigned to Topics

in the SMART application and only users with special permissions can hear the audio or see the text.

Numbers: Numbers consisting of more than two digits may be filtered out of interactions to ensure

unauthorized users do not have access to credit card numbers and other confidential information. When you

filter text interactions, the confidential digits appear as asterisks.

Comment-Only permission: Some users may only be able to access the parts of an interaction where

comments were attached.

Note: For additional information about the filter rules in your system, consult your system administrator.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments

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Dual-Channel Audio

Some recording systems use two audio channels, one for the agent's side of an interaction and the other for the

customer's side of the interaction. If your recording system does this, an energy bar (as shown in the following image)

will appear above and below the line in the audio graph so that you can tell who is speaking at any given moment.

Filtered audio content is still displayed in gray. As a result, you may see as many as three different colors in the audio

graph.

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Interaction Transcript

When working with transcripts you can:

View an interaction's transcript

Search an interaction's transcript

View the words spoken during the interaction

View Events found in the interaction.

Audit Events found in the interaction transcript.

View comments that you and other users added to the interaction

View related words for a selected term.

View who is talking during the interaction.

View an interaction's transcript:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Select an interaction.

3. Click the Transcript icon to view the interaction transcript.

Note: Text interactions may include attachments. The attachment can be found at the end of the transcript. The

attachment appears under an Attachment title, icon and the name of the text attachment. For example:

Search an interaction's transcript:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Select an interaction.

3. Click the Transcript icon to view the interaction transcript.

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4. In the top right corner of the transcript click the Search icon and in the field that appears type the letter,

word, and/or phrase you are searching for. The specific letter, word and/or phrase will be highlighted in the

transcript if found.

Note: When searching within a transcript, the search process will also search within the text attachment (if

included). The attachment can be found at the end of the transcript. The attachment appears under an

Attachment title, icon and the name of the text attachment. For example:

View the spoken word within the transcript:

When you play back an interaction, the current playback location in the transcript is indicated by a line beneath

the word being spoken.

Once a word is played back, its color changes from gray to black and the typeface of the text reflects the

confidence of the transcription: the darker the text, the higher its accuracy.

View an interaction's events: (see: Interaction Events)

The locations of Events are indicated in the transcript by numbered Event icons .

To view an event, refer to the right side of the Transcript page.

The right side of the Transcript page contains a list of all the comments and events in the interaction.

The numbers match the event numbers that appear in the Events list on the right side of the page.

Audit events found in the interaction transcription: (see: Interaction Events)

When an event is recognized in an interaction transcript, three auditing values appear next to the event (TP, FP, and

SFP).

DISCLAIMER: Auditing an interaction transcription event is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available

on Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.

To audit an event, a SpeechMiner UI user rates the accuracy of the event by selecting one of the following values next

to the event :

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TP (True Positive): SpeechMiner UI correctly identifies the event.

FP (False Positive): SpeechMiner UI incorrectly identifies the event.

SFP (Sense False Positive): SpeechMiner UI correctly identifies terms, but their use does not match the

topic's intent.

Click the Clear button to remove the audit selection.

Note: To audit events you must have the Audit Events in Interactions Grid permission. Use the Topic Analysis - Audit

report to analyze summary information about event auditing and manage existing audit data globally in the Interactions

Admin screen.

Edit, show or hide comments added by SpeechMiner UI users: (see: Interaction Comments)

To view a comment:

Hover over the Comments icon . A tip appears with the comment.

Refer to the right side of the Transcript page.

The right side of the Transcript page contains a list of all the comments and events in the interaction.

To edit a comment, click the Comment icon. An Edit Comment window opens.

View related words for a selected term: (see: Related Words)

1. Place your mouse cursor on the term/phrase and double-click. A pop-up menu appears.

2. Select Related Words. The related words results are opened in a new window.

View who is talking (agent or customer):

When your system employs multiple audio channels, the speakers are identified in the transcript and

the transcript includes information about when the agent is talking and when the customer is talking.

If your system employs multiple audio channels, the speakers are identified in the transcript, and the text is color-

coded to match the speakers.

Note: In a Recording UI mode, theTranscript page is blank because recognition processing is not performed.

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Interaction Comments

Comments enable you to add a remark about a thought you have regarding a specific interaction.

A comment can be added:

At a specific time above the audio wave. When a comment is associated with a specific time in the interaction, it

also appears in the transcript at the same time.

In the transcript alone. When a comment is specifically added to the transcript, it is not associated with a

specific time in the interaction.

Note: Comments include a timestamp of the time and date the comment was made/last edited.

There are three types of comments:

Good : Indicates a positive comment.

Bad : Indicates a negative comment.

Neutral : Indicates an unbiased comment.

Interaction comments enable you to:

View a comment(s).

Search for a comment.

Add a comment to an audio interaction.

Add a comment to a text interaction.

Edit an existing comment.

To view a comment in an interaction:

1. Hover over the comment in the Media Player or the transcript . The comment appears in a pop up window.

To search for a comment in an interaction:

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1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Play back the interaction in which you want to view a comment.

3. Click the Transcript icon to view the interaction transcript.

4. Type a word in the Search field above the Comments and Events list in the right side of the screen. The list is

filtered according to what you typed in the field.

To add a comment to an audio interaction:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Play back the interaction to which you want to add a comment.

3. Click the Add Comment icon above the Comments and Events list.

4. In the Time field, set a time to add the comment at a specific time during the interaction.

Note: The time in the Time field is automatically set to the time associated with the location of the cursor on the

audio graph.

5. Enter your comment in the field provided.

6. Select one of the following:

Good : Indicates a positive comment.

Bad : Indicates a negative comment.

Neutral : Indicates an unbiased comment.

7. Click Add to add the comment to the interaction.

Note: You can also add a comment from within the transcript itself. Double-click the term(s) to which you want

to add the comment and click the Add Comment icon in the tool tip that appears. To add the comment, follow

the steps described in this section. The comment is added in-line.

To add a comment to an text interaction:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Click the Play icon next to the interaction to which you want to add the comment.

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3. Click the Add Comment icon above the Comments and Events list.

4. Enter your comment in the field provided.

5. Select one of the following:

Good : Indicates a positive comment.

Bad : Indicates a negative comment.

Neutral : Indicates an unbiased comment.

6. Click Add to add the comment to the interaction.

Note: When adding a comment to a Chat interaction, you can add the comment from within the transcript itself

to a specific time. Double-click the term(s) to which you want to add the comment and click the Add

Comment icon in the tool tip that appears. To add the comment, enter your comment and time in the Enter

Comment and Time fields and click Add. The comment is added in-line.

To edit an existing comment:

1. Click the comment icon associated with the comment you want to edit either from the Media Player or from the

transcript.

2. Modify the comment as required.

3. If necessary change the comments sentiment (good, bad, neutral).

4. Click Apply to modify the comment.

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Interaction Events

An event occurs when SpeechMiner UI identifies a topic in an interaction. A topic is a collection of phrases that

SpeechMiner UI looks for 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".

SpeechMiner UI 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).

Non-Linguistic Identification

Non-Linguistic Identification identifies the non-verbal parts of an interaction. For example, silence, busy signal, key

presses and caller agitation (tone).

Every program instructs SpeechMiner UI to automatically identify the following non-linguistic events:

Music: Indicates when music is being played during the interaction. Music generally indicates that the

interaction was on hold.

Cross Talk: Indicates when two or more people are talking at the same time.

Silence: Indicates when there is nothing being said or played. SpeechMiner UI will automatically skip

over these silences when the interaction is played back.

DTMF: Key press on a touch-tone phone. 12 different keys can be identified using DTMF (Dual Tone

Multi Frequency).

Agent Busy Tone: A busy signal.

Agent Unknown: A dial tone.

Ringback: A signal used in PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Networks - standard "land lines") to

indicate that the line is being called or an incoming interaction is present.

After call work: Indicates the section of the recording that takes place after the interaction has ended.

Note: Identification standards for Dial Tone, Ringback, Busy Tone and DTMF are based on USA standards.

Each non-linguistic event that is identified by SpeechMiner UI has a start time, an end time, and a type. For example, if

SpeechMiner UI identifies silence in an interaction, this is a non-linguistic event whose start time is the beginning of the

silent period, whose end time is the end of the silent period, and whose type is "Silence."

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An event (both linguistic and non-linguistic) is indicated by a numbered icon . Event icons and information about

each event appear above the Media Player audio graph and in the Interaction transcript. For more information,

see Interaction Transcript and What is an Interaction? 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.

SpeechMiner UI enables you to:

View an event.

Search for an event.

To view an event in an interaction:

1. Hover over the event in the Media Player or the transcript. The event details appear in a popup window.

To search for an event in an interaction:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Select the interaction.

3. Click the Transcript icon to view the interaction transcript.

4. Type a word in the Search field above the Comments and Events list in the right side of the screen. The list is

filtered according to what you typed in the field.

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Interaction Attributes

The Interaction Attributes panel enables you to view characteristics about the interactions in the Search Results grid.

In addition, you can use the Interactions Panel to assign manual Categories to the selected interaction.

Click the Interaction Attributes icon in the Search Results grid to view following information:

Interaction processing time: Indicates the date and time the interaction was processed in the system.

Work groups: Indicates the work group associated with the agent(s) that participated in the interaction.

Agents: Indicates the agent(s) that participated in the interaction.

Metadata values: Indicates the metadata values associated with the interaction.

Tags: Indicates the tags associated with the interaction.

Manually assigned Categories: Enables you to manually associate one or more categories with the specific

interaction.

Automatically assigned Categories: Indicates the categories associated with the interaction.

To manually assign a category to an interaction:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Select an interaction.

3. Click the Interaction Attributes icon .

4. Under the Manual Categories heading, select the category that you want to assign to the specific interaction.

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Media Player Options

In addition to playing back an interaction, the Media Player enables you to perform numerous tasks.

In this page you will learn how to:

Export an interaction.

Forward an interaction to another user.

Add an interaction to an interaction list or coaching session.

Delete an interaction from the current interaction list.

Create a permalink to the interaction.

Reprocess an interaction.

Tag an interaction.

To remove a tag from an interaction.

Note: The list of available options is dependent on your permissions. For more information, see Administer Roles.

To export an interaction:

If you want to save an interaction or send it to another user, you can export the interaction as a .zip file that contains

the following:

A CSV file with information about the interaction. This file can be opened using a spreadsheet application such

as Microsoft Excel.

A WAV file. A playable audio file of the interaction (optional).

Note: You must be assigned the Export Interactions permission to be able to export interactions. For more

information refer to: Profile Permissions.

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Select the interaction(s) that you want to export.

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3. Click More and select Export. A dialog box opens and asks if you want to include the audio files with the

export.

4. Select Export the selected interactions or Export all the interactions.

Note: If you select Export all the interactions, all the interactions in all the search result pages will be

exported.

5. Select the Include audio and text interaction files checkbox if you want to include these files in the .zip file

and click Export.

Note: If the Include audio and text interaction files checkbox is not active, it means that the size of the

Export file exceeds the maximum limit.

6. Select the desired option. If you select Open, the file opens in the application that is configured to open ZIP

files on your computer.

If you select Save, a Save As dialog box opens.

7. Navigate to the folder in which you want to save the file, and then click Save. The file is saved in the selected

location.

To forward a link to a specific interaction:

You can send a link to a specific interaction to other users in the system. The link is sent in an Interaction message that

appears in the recipient's My Messages Widget.

When the recipient clicks the message, a SpeechMiner UI Media Player opens in a new window and the interaction is

played.

In addition, you can also send the recipient an e-mail notification with a link to the interaction. When the recipient

clicks the link, the Media Player opens in a new browser tab or window and plays the interaction.

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Select the interaction(s) that you want to forward.

3. Select More and click Forward. A dialog box opens.

4. Under Subject, modify the subject text if you wish.

5. Under Please Select the Recipient, select the user you want to send the link to, in one of the following ways:

In the text field type part of the recipient's name or username. Select the recipient from the list that is

generated.

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Click the button beside the text field. In the dialog box select the user from the list of users in the

relevant work group.

6. If you want to send a notification to the user's e-mail address as well as to their My Messages box, select Send

Email Notification.

7. Click Send. An Interaction message is sent to the recipient's My Messages box. If you chose to send the user

an e-mail notification, it is also sent.

To add an interaction to a list:

An interaction list is a list of interactions that is saved for later use.

You can add an interaction to a global interaction list and/or a coaching interaction list.

For additional information, see: Batch Actions.

To delete an interaction from the current interaction list:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Select the interaction(s) that you want to delete.

3. Select More and click Delete.

4. Click OK when asked if you are sure you want to delete. The selected interactions are deleted.

To create a permalink to an interaction:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Select the interaction(s) that you want to delete.

3. Select More and click Permalink.

4. Copy the link from the dialog box that opens.

To reprocess an interaction:

Use the Reprocess Calls functionality to reanalyze a selected interaction(s).

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Keep in mind that if the definitions in SMART have been modified or interaction auditing has fine-tuned the speech

analysis system since the interaction was originally processed, the system may produce different results when you

reprocess the interaction.

Note: Reprocessing Calls is not available in a Recording UI-mode or Analytics and Recording UI-mode systems.

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Select the interaction(s) you want to reprocess.

4. Select More and click Reprocess Calls.

To tag an interaction:

1. Perform a search. See Create a New Search for details.

2. From the search results list, select the interaction that you want to tag.

3. Select the More menu and in the media player and click Tag.... The Tag Interaction window appears.

4. In the Tag Interaction window, select one or more tags and click Confirm. The selected interaction is tagged

with the selected tags.

Note: In multiple segment interactions, tags will be associated with the entire interaction and not a specific segment.

Segments will not have their own tags.

To remove a tag from an interaction:

1. Search for the interaction whose tag you want to remove.

2. Select the interaction.

3. Select the More menu and in the media player and click Tag.... The Tag Interaction window appears.

4. In the Tag Interaction window, clear the checkbox associated with the tag you want to remove from the

interaction and click Confirm. The tag is removed from the selected interaction.

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Reports

Reports are summaries and analyses of interaction, speech and external metadata. You can generate reports for

analysis, view report details and status, and share the data with users throughout the enterprise. You can view reports

in your browser, print them or send them via email.

To help you monitor your business, SpeechMiner UI offers a wide range of standard reports that can be customized to

better suit your needs.

Depending on the type of report, the results may be presented as lists or data and/or in graphic form.

In some reports, you can drill down within a report to see additional details.

In this section you will learn how to:

Create and run a report: To review and analyze interaction, speech and external metadata.

Edit saved reports: To modify the report data to suit your needs.

Work with saved reports: To periodically view data for business issues that may reoccur.

Understand report layouts and parameters: To better absorb the report information.

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Reports Menu Reference

The following list provides a brief description of each Report menu item:

Templates:

Enables you to select to create a report from a wide variety of report templates.

Saved Reports:

Enables you to run the same report numerous times on different dates and times.

Edit Report:

Enables you to change an existing report.

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Create a New Report

New reports are based on an existing template.

To create a new report:

1. Select Explore > Reports.

2. Select Templates.

3. Decide which report template will act as the basis of your new report.

4. Click the Preview link to see an example of the report template.

5. Click the Edit link associated with the template on which you want to base your new report. The Edit Report

tab is opened. The name of the selected template appears in the Template list.

Note: You can change the template by selecting a different template from the Template list.

6. Configure the report as necessary using the available parameters at the top of the screen and under

Interactions Filter on the left side of the screen.

For additional in formation about each parameter refer to Report Parameters.

Note: Not all templates include Interactions Filter on the left side of the screen.

7. Click Run Report. The report appears at the bottom of the screen under that report parameters.

8. Optional: Click Save to save the report.

You do not have to save a report to run it.

To create a report based on a saved report click Save As .

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Edit a Report

After a report is created you can change its properties.

Note: The ability to change report properties depends on the permissions you were given.

To edit an existing report:

1. Select Explore > Saved Reports. The Saved Reports tab is opened.

2. Click the Edit icon . The Edit Report tab is opened.

3. Configure the report as necessary using the available parameters at the top of the screen and

under Interactions Filter on the left side of the screen. For additional information about each parameter, refer

to Report Parameters.

Note: Not all templates include Interactions Filter on the left side of the screen.

4. Click Save to save your changes to the existing report.

If you are creating a report based on a saved report click Save As .

5. Click Run Report. The report appears at the bottom of the screen under that report parameters.

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Run a Report

You can run a report in a number of ways:

Run the report and view the results in the browser.

Run the report from the Edit Report tab.

Run the report and send the results as an email attachment to selected recipients.

Run the report and export the results using a PDF or Excel file.

Note: You do not have to save a report to run it.

To run the report and view the results in the browser:

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports to run an existing report.

2. From the Saved Reports lis,t click Run . The report results are displayed as you requested in

the SpeechMiner UI Report Viewer window.

To run a report from the Edit Report tab:

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports to run an existing report.

2. From the Saved Reports list, click the Edit icon . The Edit Report tab is opened.

3. Select how to view the report results in the browser:

To view the results in a new browser window, at the top of the form select Open in new window.

To view the results below the template form, clear the Open in new window check box.

4. Click . The report results are displayed.

To run the report and send the results via e-mail:

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Note: The results are sent as an MHT file. The .mht file is opened in a browser and is linked to the SpeechMiner UI

system.

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports to run an existing report.

2. From Saved Reports, select the report you want to run. From Edit Report configure the report you want to run.

3. At the top of the form, click Email Report . A dialog box opens.

4. Under To enter the required e-mail addresses.

Separate multiple addresses with semi-colons (;).

5. Under Notes type any text you want to include in the body of the e-mail.

6. Click Send. The report runs and the results are sent to the recipients you specified. A confirmation message

appears when the results are sent.

To run the report and export the results:

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports to run an existing report.

2. From Saved Reports, select the report you want to run. From Edit Report configure the report you want to run.

3. At the top of the form, click . The report is created and appears at the bottom of the screen.

4. Click either the PDF or Excel icon to export the results to a PDF or Excel file. A dialog box opens and asks

you if you want to open or save the file.

5. Select the desired option.

If you select Open, the file is opened in the application that is configured to open files of the selected

type on your computer.

If you select Save, a Save As dialog box opens. Navigate to the folder in which you want to save the

file and click Save.

The file is saved in the selected location.

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Analyze Report Data

Report templates that include the Agents Data Set filter can be configured to analyze data for the current user or

work group, rather than a specific user or work group.

When the report runs, the data set used changes depending on which user runs it. For example, if the user is agent 12,

the report will only include interactions that were handled by agent 12.

This feature will only work if the user's profile includes mapping. For instance:

If the user is an agent, the mapping gives the name of the agent. The reports that are filtered for the current user

only include data about that agent.

If the user is a manager, the mapping gives the name of the manager's work group. The reports that are filtered

for the current user include data for the entire work group.

For additional information about user profiles and mapping users to agents or work groups, see Administer Users.

To configure a report to analyze data for the current user:

1. Select Explore > Saved Reports.

2. Click the Edit icon for the report you would like to edit for the current user. The reports opens in the Edit

Report.

3. Under Interactions Filter, select the current user from the Agents list and click Add.

4. Click Done. Once the report is configured, different users can create the report to analyze their own data and

the report can be shared with other users.

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Drill Down a Report

Depending on the type of report, the report results may be in the form of a graph, a histogram, or a table.

You can drill down to the underlying data on which any graphic component is based (graph bars, lines, or table

headers).

When you do this, you will be presented with a new report that is based on the data point you clicked on.

To drill down to the underlying data of a report component:

Click the component.

To play back an interaction from a drill-down list:

Under Open, click the icon.

The Media Player opens in a new browser window and begins to play back the interaction.

To close the drill-down list and return to the report results:

If the report was displayed in the Customize Report tab click Back at the bottom of the form.

If the report was opened in a separate window or tab, use the browser's Back button or press Backspace.

To sort data in a table:

Click the heading of the column by which you want to sort the table.

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Working with Saved Reports

A saved report is a customized report template that you can run as often as you need. You can run the saved report on

demand or according to a schedule.

Note: The System Alert report is automatically generated and saved by the system. For additional information, see

Alerts.

From the Saved Reports grid you can:

Filter the Saved Reports list.

Drill down to view additional details about the specific report.

Delete a saved report.

The Saved Reports grid contains the following columns:

Column Description

Run

Click the Run icon to run the report and display the results in a new window.

Edit

Click the Edit icon to open the report in the Edit Report tab where you can

change the parameters and settings.

Delete

Click the Delete icon to delete the selected report.

Name The saved report name.

Template The template on which the report is based.

Created By

The name of the user who created the report.

Sharing

A black Sharing icon marks reports that you created.

A faded Sharing icon marks reports that other users created and shared with you.

The names of the groups and users that share the report appear in the table beside

the Sharing icon.

Click the Sharing icon to open a dialog box in which you can select the groups and

individual users with whom you want to share the report.

The members of the selected groups and selected users will see the report listed in

their Saved Reports tab.

Note: You can only edit reports that you created. If you want to edit a report that

you did not create you must first save the report under a new name.

Schedule

Indicates whether the report is scheduled to run at a specific date and time.

Click the Schedule icon to activate, deactivate, create or modify the report's

schedule.

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Last Modified The date on which the report was last edited and saved.

Permalink

Click Copy to create a Permalink to the specific report.

To filter the Saved Reports list:

Use the filter options to limit the saved reports that are displayed in the list to those that meet specific criteria.

The following filter controls are located in the top right corner of the list:

Filter Description

Delete

Click the Delete icon to delete the selected report.

Name

Enter a sequence of characters.

Only the saved reports whose name contains the letters you entered are

displayed.

Template

Select the report template to include in the list and click Done to activate the

filter.

Only the saved reports based on the template(s) you selected are displayed.

Created By

Select the users to include in the list and click Done to activate the filter.

Only the saved reports that were created by the selected user(s) are

displayed.

Sharing

Select My Reports to display only those reports that you created or Shared

Reports to display only those reports that were created by other users and

shared with you. Click Done to activate the filter.

To drill down and view additional details about the report:

1. Create a new report or open a saved report.

2. Run the report. The report is opened in the SpeechMiner UI Report Viewer.

3. Click a graphic component in the report to drill down to the underlying data represented by the graphic

component.

To delete a saved report:

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports.

2. Select the report or reports you want to delete.

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Note: If you did not create the report you cannot delete it and a check box will not be available for the report.

3. Click the Delete icon .

If you selected to delete one report, click the Delete icon in the report row. If you selected to delete more than

one report click the Delete icon in the top right corner of the screen.

4. Click Yes. The report is deleted.

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Schedule a Report

You can schedule a report to run automatically at specified times or in response to specific events. The results are

automatically sent via email to the recipients.

The type of report schedule is indicated in the Schedule column. The following list represents the three types of report

schedules:

Deactivated: The report is not scheduled to run.

Time Based: The report runs automatically at specific times.

Event Based: The report runs automatically when specific events are detected.

Note: You can only create or modify the schedules for the reports you created.

The report scheduling feature enables you to:

Create a report schedule for a specific report.

Create a report schedule for a group of reports.

Send the report to specific recipients.

Schedule a report to run when an event is detected.

Deactivate a report schedule.

To create a report schedule for a single report:

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports.

2. Select the report you want to run according to a specific schedule.

3. Click the Schedule icon .

4. Click Active and select the Schedule tab.

5. From the Schedule Type list select Time Based.

6. From the Date Range fields select the start and end of the schedule.

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7. Select the period of time for the scheduled report.

For example, if you want to run the report every weekday, select week. If you want to run the report on

specific days select Day and then the specific days.

The parameters that appear on the right side of the window change according to your time period selection

8. Select the Recipients tab and configure the available parameters.

9. Click Schedule. The report is scheduled to automatically run according to the settings you configured.

To create a report schedule for a group of reports:

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports.

2. Select the group of reports you want to run according to a specific schedule.

3. Click the Schedule icon .

4. Click Active and select the Schedule tab.

5. From the Schedule Type list, select Time Based.

6. From the Date Range fields, select the start and end of the schedule.

7. Select the period of time for the scheduled report.

For example, if you want to run the report every weekday, select week. If you want to run the report on

specific days, select Day and then the specific days.

The parameters that appear on the right side of the window change according to the selected time period.

8. Select the Recipients tab and configure the available parameters.

9. Click Schedule. The reports are scheduled to automatically run according to the settings you configured.

To send the report to specific recipients:

Regardless of the schedule type selected, you must specify one or more recipients for the report.

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports.

2. Select the group of reports you want to run according to a specific schedule.

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3. Click the Schedule icon .

4. Select the Recipients tab and configure the fields as follows:

To: The e-mail addresses of the report recipients. Separate multiple addresses with semi-colons (;).

Reply To: The sender's address.

Subject: The text that should appear in the subject line of the e-mail.

Report Format: Select Web archive to create the results in an MHT file that can be opened in Internet

Explorer. Or, select PDF to create the results in a PDF file.

Note: If the Schedule Report does not produce expected results refer to the Configuring the

Reporting Services in the Administration Guide.

Priority: Select the desired priority level for the e-mail message.

5. Click Schedule. The reports are scheduled as specified in the Schedule tab and the recipients are set as

specified in the Recipients tab.

To schedule a report to run when an event is detected:

Event-based scheduling enables you to keep track of potentially significant trends. It also enables you to be alerted

when significant changes in agent or customer behavior occur. In this context, the term event does not refer to an

individual occurrence of an event, but to a specified number or percentage of interactions in which the event was

detected. For example, the detection of caller agitation in more than 10% of interactions could be an event that causes

a report to be generated.

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports.

2. Select the report(s) you want to schedule.

3. Click the Schedule icon .

4. At the top of the scheduling dialog box, select Active.

5. From the ScheduleType list select EventBased. The fields required to configure the schedule are displayed.

6. In the Condition line, under Categories select the categories that must be identified in the interactions. For

additional information, see Search Filter.

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7. In the next field, select one of the following:

Exceeds (>): Run the selected reports when the selected categories are identified in more than a

specified number or percentage of interactions.

Equals (=): Run the selected reports when the selected categories are identified in a specified number or

percentage of interactions.

Drops Below (<): Run the selected reports when the selected categories are identified in fewer than a

specified number or percentage of interactions.

8. Under Values, fill in the number or percentage of interactions.

9. In the next field, select Interactions if the value refers to a number of interactions or % of interactions if the

value refers to a percentage of interactions.

10. Under Duration, fill in the number of time periods (of the unit specified in the next field) in which the condition

must be met.

For example, type 2 if the condition must be met within a 2-day period and select Days in the next field.

11. Select the unit of time for the duration value you entered in the previous field.

12. Configure the Recipients tab and save the settings.

To deactivate a report schedule:

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports.

2. Select the report(s) for which you want to deactivate the schedule.

3. Click the Schedule icon .

4. At the top of the scheduling dialog box, clear the Active check box.

Note: If you selected a group of saved reports before you opened the Scheduling window, the Active check

box is not selected.

5. Click Schedule check box.

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Report Templates
SpeechMiner UI reports are interactive. That is, you can drill down within the report to view additional details about
any graphic component (for example, graph bars, line or table headers), by simply clicking the component. In addition,
you can play an interaction directly from the Interaction list in the generated report .
Below is a list of all the available SpeechMiner UI reports. For additional information, see Report Parameters.
Before you begin working with reports consider the following:
Some reports offer options not included in the remaining reports. When a report contains additional options,
they will be described in an Actions section in the report description.
Some reports have a number of available versions (for example, Full and Wide). Use the Version parameter to
select the desired version.
The information visible in the reports you create is limited to the data to which you have access.
Some reports may not be available to all users.
You may have access to reports that were not documented, because they were custom-made for your
organization.
Recording templates do not include the Categories option, because recording does not categorize interactions.
The following table lists all of the available report templates and shows which template is included in each deployment.
For example, the Agent Comparison report is available in every SpeechMiner UI deployment, the Agent Bubble
Chart is only available in an Analytics deployment and the Evaluation Summary report is available when you buy a
QM license:
 Report
Template
Available in all
SpeechMiner UI
Deployments
Available in an
Analytics
Deployment
 Available with a Quality
Management License
 Available with a
Coaching License
Agent Bubble
Chart
X
Agent Comparison X
Agent Comparison
by Segment 
 X      
Agent Evaluation
Comparison
X
Agent Trend X
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Agent Trend by
Segment 
X       
Auto Fail X 
Calibration Score X
Capacity Trend X
Category Bubble
Chart
X
Category
Distribution 
X
Category Trend  X
Coaching
Summary
X 
Evaluation
Summary
X 
Evaluator
Evaluation
Comparison
X 
Interaction
Evaluation
Summary
 X
Interactions X
Metadata
Frequency
X
Performance
Profile
X
Predictive
Elements
 X
Program
Distribution
 X
System Load X
Team Comparison X
Team Comparison
by Segment 
 X      
Team Evaluation
Comparison
X
Top and Bottom
Performers
X
Topic Analysis -
Audits
X
Topic Analysis -
Trends
X
Usage Tracking X  
 
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Report Template Layout

This section explains the general report template layout. The layout includes:

First Row

Second Row

Third Row

Data Seat Filters

The SpeechMiner UI report template has a maximum of three parameter rows. Each row deals with different functions

in the report.

In addition, most report templates have a Data Set filter section on the left side of the screen.

This section explains the report template layout using the Agent Comparison template as an example. The Agent

Comparison report represents the most common template layout.

First Row:

The first row contains:

Controls for working with report results (see Create a New Report)

Template field, in which you can select the type of report

Report Name field, used to name the report.

Second Row:

The second row contains fields for defining the report title and an optional report description. These items are

displayed at the top of the report results. By default, the name of the report template is used as the report title and you

can modify it as necessary. Some templates also have a Version parameter in this row. The Version parameter can be

used to select the size or format of the report output.

Third Row:

The third row contains the Items on Report parameters. That is, the fields that determine which items will appear

graphically on the report.

In some reports, one or more of the parameters may also have statistical functions.

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Data Seat Filters:

The left side of numerous report templates contains Data Set filters. These filters specify which data will be included in

the report's analyses.

For additional information about the filters and how to configure them, see Report Parameters.

The current filter settings are displayed on the right side of the template below the first row.

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Report Parameters

Most report parameters have the same function no matter which template you use. Exceptions are briefly explained in

this section, and dealt with in detail in the documentation on individual reports, in the Templates section.

The following is a list of the the most common parameters:

Template

Report Name

Report Title

Description

Version

Data Set Filters

Items on Report

Agents

Categories

Data Type of Compare

Period Type or Period

Top or Display

Template

From the Template list, you can choose or switch to any of the available report templates.

Report Name

Text entered in this field will be used as a file name for the report, if you choose to save the report. This name will

appear under the Saved Reports tab for future access.

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Report Title

Text entered in this field will be displayed in large, bold type at the top of the report results. The report title is optional.

The name of the report template appears in this field by default, but can be modified or deleted.

Description

Text entered in this field will be displayed in fine print directly below the Report Title in the report results. The

description is optional.

Version

The output of some reports can be generated in different versions and different sizes or formats.

In this field, select the desired output version from the drop down list.

The available options vary depending on the template.

Depending on your permissions, the following Version options may be available:

Full Report: a full-size report output optimized for printing (either 11" wide x 8.5" high, or 8.5" wide by 11"

high, depending on the template).

Full reports often contain two parts: a graph or chart followed by a summary table which may also contain

additional details.

In some cases, when a Full report contains items that can be expanded to display more details, the version has

two options, Expanded and Collapsed.

When Full Report (Expanded) is selected, all items are initially expanded when the report is displayed.

When Full Report (Collapsed) is selected, all items are initially collapsed.

Mini: a small output for display in the Dashboard view (480px wide x 288px high).

Wide: a wide-width output for display in the wider columns of the Dashboard view (768px wide x 288px

high).

Table Only: a full-size report output that only includes the summary table. Graphs and diagrams are not printed

(either 11" wide x 8.5" high, or 8.5" wide by 11" high, depending on the template).

X-Axis Only: a bubble chart option. Select this option to specify report output in the form of a table, with a

bar graph representing the x-axis values. No bubble-chart is produced and y-axis values are not represented

(Width: 768px).

Y-Axis Only: a bubble chart option. Select this option to specify report output in the form of a table, with a bar

graph representing the y-axis values. No bubble-chart is produced, and x-axis values are not represented

(Width: 768px)

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Data Set Filters

The Data Set Filter options allow you to narrow down the data from the entire database, so you can base your report

on a subset of the available data.

All of the Data Set Filters have an "AND" relationship. This means that each filter further restricts the options available

and all interaction events and topics represented in your final data set satisfy all Data Set Filters.

Should you choose options from two different filters that mutually exclude each other (for example, a Date metadata

entered for April 2015 and a date range between February and March 2014), you will have zero data in your report.

Note: Parameters that appear under Items on Report (for example, the third row of parameters) allow you to select

specific information from the database selected under Data Set Filters.

Distributional information presented in the report is calculated for the items selected under Items on Report,and is

built upon the base of data that is selected using the Data Set Filters. The Data Set Filters appear in the Filter Panel on

the left side of the report template for all reports that support them. The filters are divided into groups. The basic filters

appear at the top of the Filter Panel and are always displayed when the panel is displayed. The remaining filter groups

can be expanded or collapsed.

The following groups of filters are available:

Filter

Group

Description

Basic filters

Enables you to filter for interaction types, languages and date range.

Note: A day begins at 0:00 and ends at 23:59.

To Date date filters (All, Today, Week to Date, Last 7 Days, Month to Date. Last

Month, Quarter to Date, Last 90 Days) include the interactions collected in the

system up until the exact time and date the report is generated.

The times given are for the time zone where your Web server is deployed, and

therefore are not necessarily the same as the times where you are physically located.

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SpeechMiner

Enables you to filter for interaction categories, programs and the topics.

For each option, select one or more values. Only interactions in which at least one of

the selected values for each option was identified are included in the data set. For

example, if you select three categories and two programs, only interactions belonging

to at least one of the categories and one of the programs are included.

You can add lines to the categories and topics. The logical relationship between each

line is AND. For example, if one line under Categories specifies one category and

another line specifies another category, an interaction must be in both categories to

be included.

To add a line, click .

To create a negative filter, click the Not button beside the field. For example, to

include all categories except Category A, select Category A and select the Not

button beside the Category field.

For additional information about each option, see Search Filter.

Metadata

Enables you to filter according to metadata values.

Metadata is collected by the recording system and is relayed to SpeechMiner UI.

The types of available metadata vary from system to system. You can select any type

of metadata available in your system and, if you wish, you can specify a value for it.

The search results will only include interactions for which the selected type of

metadata has an automatic or manually defined value.

User Actions

Enables you to filter interactions according to:

Specific user comments added to the interaction.

Interactions that were played back.

Forms that were filled out.

Whether or not quality checking was performed.

Under Interaction Comment Text, specify the text that must appear in a comment

that was added to an interaction.

In the other fields, select the users who must have performed the specified actions.

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Items on Report

The parameters in this section allow you to select specific information and calculate distributional information on the

data in the data set that was selected using the Data Set Filters.

If you make no selections under Items on Report, default values will determine how the data will appear in the

report.

Since the parameters in Items on Report differ from report to report, this section explains only the most common ones

listed alphabetically. Less common parameters are explained in their respective templates.

Agents

You can select the specific agents or work groups to be analyzed and displayed in your report. The default value

(Any) includes all agents.

If your Data Set Filters are not set to Any, your selections for Agents must match your selections in the Data Set

Filters (for example, the same work groups or agents, belonging to the same interaction types). In other words, the

report output will only include agents who were selected here and who were not excluded from the data set in the

Data Set Filters.

Categoies

You can select specific interaction categories to limit the data set analyzed for your report. Your data set will include

interactions belonging to any of the categories selected.

Use the default value (Any) to include all available categories.

Note: If a single interaction belongs to multiple categories it will be counted as one interaction for each category

selected under this parameter.

Also, bear in mind that the report output will only include interactions in categories that were selected from the

Categories list and were not excluded from the data set in the Data Set Filters.

If you selected specific categories in the Data Set Filters section, only categories that are selected from both the

Categories list and the Data Set Filters will appear.

When used with Percentage of Interactions in the Data Type parameter, the report will display the ratio of the

following as a percentage:

{the number of interactions from the selected Categories in Items on Report} over {the number of interactions

from the Categories selected for analysis in Data Set Filters}

Note: If one or more interactions belong to multiple categories, the sum of the percentages of interactions for all

categories may add up to more than 100%.

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Data Type or Compare

You can specify the type of data you wish to display in your report.

The most common choices are:

Number of Interactions: Displays the number of interactions per each report item. Data may vary depending

on the other filters selected.

Percentage of Interactions: Displays the percentage of interactions per report item in your data set.

Average Interaction Duration: Displays the average length, in minutes, of all interactions for each report

item. The entire conversation for the interaction recording session is considered, excluding the wrap time after

the interaction.

Total Resources: Displays the total amount of time, in hours, of all the interactions per report item. It is

essentially the sum of all interaction durations.

Period Type or Period

This parameter is most commonly seen on reports that show trends. The output of the report will be displayed in

increments of the selected Period Type. For each increment, the value of the selected Data Type will be displayed for

each particular report item. For example, if the Data Type is "Number of Interactions" and the Period Type is "Day,"

the number of interactions for each day in the date range included in the report will be shown.

Top or Display

In this parameter, you can choose how many of the highest or lowest values are displayed on the report. The options

may include 5, 10, 15, 20, All, All Sorted, and All Unsorted.

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Available Templates
The following is a list of all the available templates:
Agent Bubble Chart    
  
Agent Comparison
Agent Comparison by Segment
Agent Evaluation Comparison
Agent Trend  
 
Agent Trend by Segment  
 
Auto Fail
Calibration Score
Capacity Trend   
  
Category Bubble Chart  
Category Distribution
Category Trend
Coaching Summary 
 
Evaluation Summary
Evaluator Evaluation Comparison   
Interaction Evaluation Summary
Interactions
Metadata Frequency
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Predictive Elements
Program Distribution
System Load   
  
Team Comparison
Team Comparison by Segment
Team  Evaluation Comparison
Top and Bottom Performers
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Topic Analysis - Trends  
 
Usage Tracking
 
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Agent Bubble Chart

Description

The Agent Bubble Chart report compares agents and/or work groups by plotting them on a graph according to the

percentage of interactions in the horizontal (x-axis) and vertical (y-axis) Categories.

Each Agent is represented on the graph by a bubble. The size of each bubble represents the average interaction

duration.

The X-Axis Only and Y-Axis Only versions present the data as a histogram indicating percentage of interactions per

agent and/or work group, rather than a bubble chart.

Common Usages

Plot Agents showing average interaction duration plus two customer-experience categories (for example,

Dissatisfaction and Escalation)

Plot Agents showing average interaction duration plus two agent-efficiency categories (for example, Transfer

Rate and Hold Rate)

Plot Agents showing average interaction duration plus two categories that represent metadata (for example,

Customer Satisfaction and Issue Resolution)

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

Items on Report:

X-Axis Categories: Select one or more categories to include in the bubble chart's x-axis.

Y-Axis Categories: Select one or more Categories to include in the y-axis of the bubble chart.

Note: Only categories that are not excluded from the data set (that is, using the filter on the right side of the screen),

are included in the report.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

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Actions

Click a bubble in a chart, a bar in a graph, or an item in a table to open a list of interactions included in the item.

In X-Axis Only and Y-Axis Only versions, click to drill down to a Category Trend report.

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Agent Comparison

Description

The Agent Comparison report consists of a bar graph comparing Agents' performance against each other, as well as

against the average value of all the agents that are represented.

The numbers in the table and graph represent an interaction count.

Common Usages

Plot agent performance statistics to see who performs above and below the benchmark (the average of a group

is determined by the filter selections).

Drill down on specific agents to play their interactions and find examples about effective agent behavior or areas

that need improvement.

Utilize the data obtained from the report to identify training needs for effective agent coaching.

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click on a bar in the graph or an item in a table to open a list of interactions included in the specific item.

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Agent Comparison by Segment

Description

The Agent Comparison by Segment report consists of a bar graph comparing Agents' performance against each other,

as well as against the average value of all the agents that are represented.

The numbers in the table and graph represent a segment count.

Common Usages

Plot agent performance statistics to see who performs above and below the benchmark (the average of a group

is determined by the filter selections).

Drill down on specific agents to play their interactions and find examples about effective agent behavior or areas

that need improvement.

Utilize the data obtained from the report to identify training needs for effective agent coaching.

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click on a bar in the graph or an item in a table to open a list of segments included in the specific item.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Agent Evaluation Comparison

Description

The Agent Evaluation Comparison report summarizes the average evaluation score for select agents.

Common Usages

Used to compare agent evaluation scores.

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Date Range: Enables you to select the period of time on which to base the report.

Form: Enables you to select the specific form to be analyzed and displayed in the report.

Tip: If the Form list does not include the form you want to select, refresh the page.

Agents: Enables you to select the agents that should be analyzed in the report.

Show Form: Enables you to view the complete form(s) associated with the specific report. To view the form

you must select an agent.

For additional information refer to Report Parameters.

Actions

Click an agent in the Y-axis to drill down and view the form scores associated with the selected agent.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Agent Trend

Description

The Agent Trend report is a line graph that displays agent performance in relation to one or more selected categories

over time.

The numbers in the table and graph represent an interaction count.

Common Usages

Use to track an agent's performance progress over time to monitor effectiveness of training programs.

Use to use the graph to measure and compare performance and provide feedback to the agent.

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click on a line in the graph or an item in the table to open the interaction list included in the item.

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Agent Trend by Segment

Description

The Agent Trend by Segment report is a line graph that displays agent performance in relation to one or more selected

categories over time.

The numbers in the table and graph represent a segment count.

Common Usages

Tracks an agent's performance progress over time to monitor effectiveness of training programs.

Measures and compares performance to provide feedback to the agent.

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click on a line in the graph or an item in the table to open the segment list included in the item.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Auto Fail

Description

The Auto Fail report provides a summary of all the Quality Monitoring evaluation forms that were designated as auto

fail for selected evaluations.

Common Usages

Enables you to monitor evaluation with evaluation forms that were designated as auto fail.

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Evaluation: Enables you to select from a list of evaluations that contain forms that were assigned as auto fail.

Form: Enables you to select from a list of forms that were assigned as auto fail.

Date Range: Enables you to select the period of time on which to base the report.

Actions

Click on a form name to see a list of all the evaluation session that failed due to the auto fail designation.

From the list that appears, you can click on the Agent Name to view the specific form that failed.

Note: If you select a specific form from the Form list at the top of the report, you will receive the list of the evaluation

sessions that failed for the selected form.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Calibration Score

Description

The Calibration Score summarizes all the evaluation sessions for one Calibration Evaluation and provides a graph that

shows the specific Calibration Evaluation form scores.

Common Usages

Enables you to create a report that compares two or more evaluators performance.

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Evaluation: Enables you to select the Calibration Evaluation on which to base the Calibration Score report.

Tip: If the Evaluation list does not include the evaluation you want to select, refresh the page.

Baseline Average: Enables you to highlight a score by which evaluators are compared. For example, if you

enter 80% for the Baseline Average you will

be able to see who scored about and below 80%.

For additional information refer to Report Parameters.

Actions

Sort the evaluator names in the Y-axis.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Capacity Trend

Description

The Capacity Trend report contains information that can be used by the system administrator to monitor the system

load and to see the extent to which the system can handle new incoming interactions.

The Capacity Trend report includes the following:

A bar that shows the number of hours of loaded interaction and accumulated interaction for each day in the

selected time period.

A table listing the maximum number of channels each day. For example, the maximum number of agents taking

interactions concurrently at any one time during the day and the maximum number of seats available (for

example, the maximum number of agents who could use the system).

Common Usages

Analyze the number of recent interactions in the system to determine if the current hardware resources meet the

required capacity.

Forecast future hardware needs and allocate resources accordingly.

Customizing the Report

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Category Bubble Chart

Description

The Category Bubble Chart report compares categories by plotting them on a graph according to the percentage of

interactions in the horizontal (x-axis) and vertical (y-axis) categories. Each Bubble category is represented on the

graph by a bubble. The size of each bubble represents the average interaction duration.

The x-axis value indicates the percentage of interactions that were in both the Bubble Category and any of the selected

x-axis categories.

The y-axis value indicates the percentage of interactions that were in both the Bubble Category and any of the selected

y-axis categories.

The X-Axis Only and Y-Axis Only versions present the data as a bar graph indicating percentage of interactions per

category, rather than a bubble chart.

Note: This template is only available in an Analytics UI deployment.

Common Usages

Plot interaction - Categories show the average interaction duration plus two customer-experience categories

(for example, Dissatisfaction and Escalation).

Plot interaction - Categories show the average interaction duration plus two agent-efficiency categories (for

example, Transfer Rate and Hold Rate).

Plot interaction - Categories showing average interaction duration plus two categories that represent metadata

(for example, Customer Satisfaction and Issue Resolution).

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Version: available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

Items on Report:

Bubble Categories: Select the categories to represent as bubbles in the chart.

X-Axis Categories: Select one or more categories to include in the x-axis of the bubble chart.

Y-Axis Categories: Select one or more categories to include in the y-axis of the bubble chart.

Note: Only categories that are not excluded from the data set are included in the report.

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For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a bubble in a chart, a bar in a graph, or an item in a table to open the interaction list included in the item.

In X-Axis Only and Y-Axis Only versions, click to drill down to a Category Trend report.

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Category Distribution

Description

The Category Distribution report is a graph or chart that shows the distribution of interactions by category for a

specified domain. The distribution can be calculated by percentage of interactions or by percentage of resources (total

duration of all interactions included in the analysis).

Note: This template is only available in an Analytics UI deployment.

Common Usages

Plot the proportion of interactions in specified categories to analyze business trends and customer issues.

Compare the distribution of multiple categories (such as, interaction or cancellation reasons, product popularity,

or competitor mentions), across your body of interactions.

Utilize the comparative data obtained from the report to identify the optimal ways to target customer issues.

Customizing the Report

General Settings:

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, Columns, and Summary versions. Full Report,

Mini, Wide are bar graphs that list the selected categories and showing their proportion in the data set.

Columns: A chart that shows the average interaction duration for each category. These values are displayed

above the total number of interactions in the category.

Summary (Pie): A pie chart indicating the proportion of interactions or resources in the entire data set that are

associated with the selected categories. You can select to base the calculations on the number of interactions or

on the total resources selected under Distributed By.

Items on Report:

Distributed By: Select whether the distribution should be calculated based on percentage of interactions (the

total number of interactions) or percentage of resources (the total duration of all interactions).

For all other parameters, see Report Parameters.

Actions

In Full, Mini, Wide, or Columns versions, click a category or bar to open a list of interactions in the category.

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In the Full version, click Trend to drill down to the category's interaction distribution. If the distribution of

the items in the report (see Items on Report above) is the percentage of interactions, the distribution of

interactions is presented according to the percentage of interactions. If the distribution is the percentage of

resources, the distribution of interactions is presented according to the average interaction duration.

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Category Trend

Description

The Category Trend report shows changes in categories over a period of time. The trend line can represent the

number of interactions, percentage of interactions, average interaction duration, or total resources. There is one line for

every category selected.

Note: This template is only available in an Analytics UI deployment.

Common Usages

Plot the trends in a particular category or multiple categories chronologically.

Identify peak periods to make informed scheduling and staffing decisions.

Measure the response to new product releases.

Evaluate the effectiveness of recent business changes and agent training.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a point in a graph or an item in a table to open the interaction list included in the item.

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Coaching Summary

Description

The Coaching Summary report summarizes the current status of coaching sessions in a pie chart and table and lists

active coaching sessions by user.

Items in the list can be expanded to display details about coaching sessions.

Common Usages

Enables you to monitor personnel training.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click + beside a user/trainee to expand it and view a list of coaching sessions assigned to the user/trainee.

Click + beside a coaching session to expand it and view details about the session.

Click + or - at the top of the table to expand or collapse all of the items in the table.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Evaluation Summary

Description

The Evaluation Summary report summarizes the evaluation performance of one or more evaluators. The report is

shown in a Doughnut chart.

Common Usages

Enables you to monitor evaluator performance.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Date Range: Enables you to select the period of time on which to base the report.

Evaluators: Enables you to select the evaluators whose performance you would like to compare.

For additional, see Report Parameters.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Evaluator Evaluation Comparison

Description

The Evaluator Evaluation Comparison Report summarizes the average evaluation score for selected evaluators.

Common Usages

Enables you to compare evaluator evaluation scores.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Date Range: Use to select the period of time on which to base the report.

Form: Use to select the specific form to be analyzed and displayed in your report.

Note: If the Form list does not include the form you want to select refresh the page.

Evaluators: Use to select the specific evaluators to be analyzed and displayed in your report.

For additional settings, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click an agent in the Y-axis to drill down and view the form scores associated with the selected evaluator.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Interaction Evaluation Summary

Description

The Interaction Evaluation Summary report shows the evaluation score for the last evaluation session, associated with

a specific evaluator and interaction.

Common Usages

Enables you to monitor evaluation session scores for a specific evaluator.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Form: Enables you to select the specific form to be analyzed and displayed in the report.

Tip: If the Form list does not include the form you want to select, refresh the page.

Interaction ID: Enables you to select the specific internal interaction ID to be analyzed and displayed in the

report.

Evaluator: Use to select the specific evaluator to be analyzed and displayed in your report.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Interactions

Description

The Interactions report provides a list of all interactions that were recorded.

Common Usages

Validate recorded interactions.

Customizing the Report

Items on Report

Metadata Field name: Select the metadata field for which you want to run the report.

Note: The field selected must be within the range selected in the Data Set Filters. If it is not within the range,

the report will be empty.

Pattern to Include: Enter a series of one or more characters that must be found in the field value in order for it

to be included in the report (optional; leave the field blank to include all patterns).

Values to Exclude: Enter one or more field values to exclude from the report. If you enter more than one

value, separate the multiple values with commas and do not leave a space after the comma (optional; leave the

field blank to include all values).

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a row in the table to listen to the selected interaction.

Click the metadata summary to see and playback a list of interactions with the same metadata value.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Metadata Frequency

Description

The Metadata Frequency report is a histogram that shows values for a specific metadata field.

The histogram shows how many interactions in the data set are associated with the selected metadata field.

The Metadata Frequency report includes:

The top of the graph is a summary of the data. It shows how many interactions are associated with each value

and the percentage of all the interactions in the data set that had the values. For example, if the metadata field

"department" is selected, the report shows how many departments (values) were represented in the data set,

and divides the departments into groups based on how many interactions they had.

The bottom of the graph provides details for one of the groups in the top level. It lists the values associated with

the number of interactions represented by the group and shows the amount.

The Wide version of the report includes the most common category associated with the interactions.

Common Usages

Classify and quantify interactions according to a metadata field.

Utilize the comparative data obtained from the report to identify issues that may require attention.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

Items on Report

Metadata Field name: Select the metadata field for which you want to run the report.

Note: The field selected must be within the range selected in the Data Set Filters. If it is not within the range,

the report will be empty.

Pattern to Include: Enter a series of one or more characters that must be found in the field value in order for it

to be included in the report (optional; leave the field blank to include all patterns).

Values to Exclude: Enter one or more field values to exclude from the report. If you enter more than one

value, separate the multiple values with commas and do not leave a space after the comma (optional; leave the

field blank to include all values).

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Minimum Interaction Count: The minimum number of interactions that must be found for a value, in order for

the value to be included in the report.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

At the top of the graph, click a bar in the graph to drill down to the lower level.

At the bottom of the graph:

Click a bar in the graph to search for interactions that have the field value represented by the bar.

Click to drill down to a Category Distribution report.

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Performance Profile

Description

The Performance Profile report is a bar graph and table that compares work group or agent performance for a

specified category or a group of categories to the benchmark (the work group or agent’s average). You can choose to

analyze performance based on the number of interactions, the percentage of interactions, average interaction duration,

or total resources. The table includes data about the number of interactions, the difference from the benchmark, and

the percentage above or below the benchmark.

Note: This template is only available in an Analytics UI deployment.

Common Usages

Visualize and compare agent performance for training and feedback.

Utilize the data obtained from the report to increase the efficiency of team and operations management.

Assess the efficacy of training programs by plotting performance before and after the program’s implementation.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

Items on Report

Profile: Select the agents or work groups you would like to compare to the average (the benchmark) of

specific categories. Your selection must match the Benchmark Type, but it does not have to match the work

group or agent parameters in the Data Set Filters.

Benchmark Type: Select the type of benchmark to use: Agent or Team (work group). The selection here must

correspond with those in the Data Set Filters. If you selected work groups in the Data Set Filters (rather than

individual agents in the expanded work groups), you must select Team for the Benchmark Type in order to

return results. The Benchmark Type must also match the Profile selected. That is, if agent is selected as the

benchmark type, agents must also be selected in the Profile parameter.

Compare: Select the data type you want to compare.

Categories: Select specific interaction categories to limit the data set analyzed for your report.

Threshold: Specify the minimum percent deviation from the benchmark required for an item to be included in

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the report. For example, "40" means only values that are greater or less than the benchmark by at least 40% are

included in the report.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click + next to an agent or team to expand the tree and view a list of categories.

Click + to collapse and expand an item.

When an item is expanded, click Trend to drill down to a Category Trend report.

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Predictive Elements

Description

The Predictive Elements report is composed of two bar graphs that show the relationship between selected Categories

and Target Categories. The first graph has nested pairs. The first bar of the pair is the number of interactions that fall

into the selected Categories, while the second bar of the pair is the number of interactions that fall into both the

selected Categories and the Target Categories (Success Factor). The second graph shows the ratio of the two bars in

each pair. By examining the ratios, you can see how each Category affects the Target and make changes based on

those findings.

Common Usages

Plot the relationship between one or more Categories and the Target Categories to better understand cause-

effect trends in customer behaviork.

Determine which factors increase the likelihood of reaching the desired Target (for example, which of the

several potential Scripts more reliably leads to a closed sale).

Determine which business practices and agent behaviors contribute to an undesired outcome (such as

cancellation).

Utilize the data obtained from the report to optimize agent training.

Analyze the report data to make informed decisions about business practices.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Version: Available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, and Columns versions. The Columns version

presents the data in graphs alone, without printing the values in table format. For additional information, see

Report Parameters.

Items on Report

Categories: See Report Parameters.

Target: Select Categories that you would like to include in the Target. Selected categories must match or be

contained within the Categories previously selected in the Data Set Filters.

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Actions

Click an item to open a list of interactions in the specified Category (or the specified Category and Target

Categories).

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Program Distribution

Description

The Program Distribution report graphs the interaction volume for each Program.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise in an Analytics UI

deployment. For details, refer to Introduction to SpeechMiner UI.

Common Usages

Visualize and monitor comparative interaction-volume data by Program.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

See Report Parameters.

Data Set Filters

See Report Parameters.

Actions

Click an item to open a list of interactions included in the item.

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System Load

Description

The System Load report includes a line graph and a grid displaying the amount of audio hours processed per day or

hour. On the line graph, two lines are displayed, one for processed interactions and one for loaded interactions. The

grid below the graph shows each point (either a date or time) that appears in the line graph, with its corresponding

loaded and processed hours.

Note: A smaller version of this template (MINI_System Load), is also available. It is intended for use in

the Dashboard page.

Common Usages

Enables you to monitor the system's processing load.

Customizing the Report

Dates: Enter a date range for the report.

Granularity: Choose either HOUR or DAY for the scale on the horizontal axis. Make sure your selection is

reasonable for the dates you selected.

Report Title: Type the name of the report.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Team Comparison

Description

The Team Comparison report is a bar graph that compares performance between teams and against the average value

of all teams represented.

The numbers in the table and graph represent an interaction count.

Common Usages

Analyze the report data to optimize team and operations management.

Provide clear visual reports for training assessment and feedback.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Version: available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

Items on Report

Teams: Select specific work groups to be analyzed and displayed in your report. The default value ("Any")

includes all work groups. You must also make the appropriate selections for the work group or Agent,

Language, and Program filters in the Data Set Filters. If you select individual agents instead of work groups, you

must select the team that contains the agents you selected, otherwise results will not be returned.

Compare: Select the data type you want to compare.

Categories: Select specific interaction categories to limit the data set analyzed for your report.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a bar in the graph to open a list of interactions included in the item.

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Team Comparison by Segment

Description

The Team Comparison report is a bar graph that compares performance between teams and against the average value

of all teams represented.

The numbers in the table and graph represent a segment count.

Common Usages

Analyze the report data to optimize team and operations management.

Provide clear visual reports for training assessment and feedback.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Version: available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

Items on Report

Teams: Select specific work groups to be analyzed and displayed in your report. The default value ("Any")

includes all work groups. You must also make the appropriate selections for the work group or Agent,

Language, and Program filters in the Data Set Filters. If you select individual agents instead of work groups, you

must select the team that contains the agents you selected, otherwise results will not be returned.

Compare: Select the data type you want to compare.

Categories: Select specific interaction categories to limit the data set analyzed for your report.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a bar in the graph to open a list of segments included in the item.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Team Evaluation Comparison

Description

The Team Evaluation Comparison report summarizes the average evaluation score for the selected teams.

Common Usages

To compare team evaluation scores.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Date Range: Use to select the period of time on which to base the report.

Form: Use to select the specific form to be analyzed and displayed in your report.

Note: If the Form list does not include the form you want to select, refresh the page.

Teams: Use to select the specific teams to be analyzed and displayed in your report.

Show Form: Enables you to view the complete form(s) associated with the specific report. To view the form

you must select a team.

For all other settings, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a team in the Y-axis to drill down and create an Agent Evaluation Comparison report for the agents in the

selected team.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Top and Bottom Performers

Description

The Top and Bottom Performers report is a bar graph that indicates values for three groups (top performers, bottom

performers, and average performers) across multiple categories.

Use this report, to identify what top performers do differently from the rest, and thereby spread the knowledge of best

practices. This report is only useful if you know ahead of time who your top, bottom, and average agents or teams are.

It is purely a graphical representation of a comparison and it will NOT tell you who the top and bottom agents are.

Instead, it will tell you how they compare in specific areas of performance.

Note: This template is only available in an Analytics UI deployment.

Common Usages

Compare the behavior of top and bottom performers to identify best practices.

Utilize the data obtained from the report to optimize agent training and improve business processes.

Customizing the Report

General Settings

Version: available in Full Report (standard size), Mini, Wide, X-Axis Only, and Y-Axis Only versions.

Items on Report

Top Agents: Specify the top agents (based on prior assessment) to be displayed for each category. The

percentage of interactions handled by the selected top agents will be displayed for each category. Selections

here must be the same as those made in the work group and agent filters in the Data Set Filters.

Bottom Agents: Specify the bottom agents (based on prior assessment) to be displayed for each category.

The percentage of interactions handled by the selected bottom agents will be displayed for each

category. Selections here must be the same as those made in the work group and agent filters in the Data Set

Filters.

Average: Specify the average-performing agents (based on prior assessment) to be displayed for each

category. The percentage of interactions handled by the selected average-performing agents will be displayed

for each category. Selections here must be the same as those made in the work group and agent filters in the

Data Set Filters.

Categories: Select specific interaction categories to limit the data set analyzed for your report.

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For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a bar or a value to open a list of interactions included in the item.

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Topic Analysis - Audits

Description

The Topic Analysis - Audits report is a table that shows the precision with which each topic was identified by

SpeechMiner UI. Precision values are given for one or more confidence levels, as specified in the report parameters.

The Precision values are determined by the TP/FP/SFP (True Positive/False Positive/Sense False Positive) selections

made by the interaction auditor. For additional information, see the Event and Comment sections in the What is an

Interaction? page.

Each line in the table contains auditing and precision information for one topic, including the level of strictness required

for recognizing the topic (as defined in the Topic definition in SMART), how many times the topic was found in the

interactions that were included in the report, how many interactions it was found in and how many of the events found

were audited. In addition, the precision is graded for each threshold included in the report. The grades are calculated

by dividing the number of TP events by the sum of the TP and FP events. The grades are presented as follows:

Grade Value of TP/(TP+FP)

A A >=0.8

B 0.8 > B >=0.7

C 0.7 > C >=0.6

0.6 > D >=0.5

F F < 0.5

This report is beneficial because it allows you to fine-tune the system to the correct accuracy level. After learning

about Topic Identification performance you can adjust confidence levels as necessary.

Note: This template is only available in an Analytics UI deployment.

Common Usages

Enables you to monitor the quality of the different topics in the system based on audit information.

Customizing the Report

Items on Report

Topics: Choose the Topics whose audits you want to examine.

Confidence Thresholds: Type in the confidence levels for which you wish to see precision values. Separate

multiple values with commas.

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Note: Confidence levels are assigned by the system to each term it identifies. They indicate how closely the term

defined in the topic matches the term that was discovered in the audio segment. Precision in the report means the

percentage of TPs for all the audits in the topic whose confidence levels were equal to or above the given thresholds.

This means that each of the thresholds includes all of the audits in the threshold levels above it.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a topic to drill down to the audit information for each of the terms in the topic.

Click to drill down to an item's details. The details show information about the precision as a function of

the confidence level and as a function of elapsed time in interactions.

In the list of terms for a topic, click the name of a term in order to open a list of interactions in which the specific

term is found.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Topic Analysis -Trends

Description

The Topic Analysis - Trends report is a table that compares how often particular Topics were found in the selected

time period with how often they were found in the preceding time period. Each line in the table contains information for

one Topic, including the percent change between the current period and the preceding period, and the number and

percent of interactions in each period in which the Topic was found.

The baseline time period for the report is selected in the Data Set parameters (see Common Parameters). The

preceding time period is automatically set by the system based on the baseline. For example, if the baseline is a two-

month period, the preceding time period used is the two months preceding that baseline period.

The Percent Change is calculated by the number of interactions per topic in the selected period (A) divided by the

total number of interactions in the selected period (B) divided by the number of interactions per topic in the previous

period (C) divided by the total number of interactions in the previous period (D). For example, (A/B)/(C/D) =

(A*D)/(B*C).

Note: This template is only available in an Analytics UI deployment.

Common Usages

Enables you to monitor topic trends within interactions handled by the system.

Customizing the Report

Items on Report

Topics: Choose the topics whose audits you want to examine.

Minimum Number of Interactions: Type the minimum number of interactions in which a topic must be found,

in order for it to be included in the results.

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a topic to drill down to the trend information for each of the terms in the topic.

In the list of terms for a topic, click the name of a term in order, to open a list of interactions in which the

specific term is found.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Usage Tracking

Description

The Usage Tracking report shows information about user activity over a selected date range.

Common Usages

Monitor the activity of SpeechMiner UI users.

Find out who performed the last system Apply in SMART.

See which interactions have been listened to.

Customizing the Report

For additional information, see Report Parameters.

Actions

Click a user to drill down to a log of the user's actions.

In the user action log, click one of the tabs at the top of the list to filter the list. For example, click Logins to see

a list of when the user logged into or out of the system.

DISCLAIMER: This report is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Quality Management

Quality Management (QM) helps organizations move beyond random sampling to gain a deeper understanding of its

agent/customer interactions by monitoring, evaluating, and studying customer interactions. Quality Management not

only helps organizations identify agents who under perform, but it also helps them identify the root cause of an agent's

behavior.

By understanding agent performance and productivity issues at a granular level, Quality Management offers insight into

customer interactions and ways in which agents can improve them. That is, Quality Management offers insight that can

increase employee productivity, resolve future customer disputes and subsequently enhance customer service. It

enables you to ensure consistent and professional service.

The QM module is a tool that helps organizations improve agent productivity as well as customer satisfaction. The key

features such as Forms Manager and Evaluations Manager can be utilized for evaluating agent productivity, as well as

targeted agent training. These features allow easy detection and training of agents who do not adhere to compliance or

specified procedures.

The means to satisfied customers and great service is this cycle of data collection, analysis, training, and improvement.

Quality Management key features include:

Forms Manager: Enables you to create feedback forms to use when evaluating your contact center agents.

Evaluations manager: Enables you to create evaluations to monitor your agents productivity and efficiency.

Evaluation Sessions: Provides a list of existing evaluation sessions.

Reports: Enables you to monitor agent or evaluator progress using predefined reports, identify areas for training,

and calibrate evaluator responses to limit evaluation variations.

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Quality Management Menu Reference

The following list provides a brief description of each Quality menu item:

Forms Manager:

Enables you to create feedback forms to use when evaluating your contact center agents.

Evaluations Manager:

Enables you to create evaluations to monitor your agents productivity and efficiency.

Evaluation Sessions:

Provides a list of the existing evaluation sessions. From this list you can tell which session was or was not completed.

A completed evaluation session provides a view into how an agent communicates with consumers.

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Quality Management Workflow

Review the following QM workflow to get an overall idea about the SpeechMiner UI Quality Management process:

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Forms Manager

With the Quality Management - Forms Manager you can create and manage forms that enable evaluators to provide

feedback about a specific agent. That is, when a form is included in an evaluation, it becomes part of a process that

helps you identify how an agent is functioning, and subsequently what the agent needs to do in order to maximize your

business goals and customer satisfaction.

Before you create a form consider the following:

Each form has a name, optional description and a list of questions.

Forms can contain one or more of the following question types:

Yes/No

Multiple Choice

Choose from List

Free Form

Sliding Scale

Questions are created and contained within groups. A group can contain one or more questions.

Each question can be defined as mandatory or optional.

Multiple Choice, Choose from List, Yes/No and Sliding Scale questions are assigned weights. The given weight

is used to calculate cumulative scores and the overall score of the form.

Yes/No, Multiple Choice, the minimum Sliding Scale value and Choose from List questions can include Auto-

Fail answers.

Forms are inactive until you activate them.

Only active forms can be attached to an evaluation.

Each evaluation can contain one or more forms.

A form used in one or more evaluations cannot be deleted.

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Each active form can be attached to one or more evaluations.

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Forms Manager Grid

The Quality Management - Forms Manager grid contains a list of all the inactive and active forms.

From the grid you can quickly see when the form was created, the last time it was modified who created the form and

so on.

The Forms Manager grid contains the following information:

New Form : Used to create a new form.

Filter by name : Enables you to search for a specific form according to the form's

name.

Delete : Deletes the selected form(s).

0 Selected: The number of forms selected in the grid.

Name: The name of the form.

Note: Hover over the form name to view the description of the specific form.

Description: The description added to the Description field about the specific form.

Note: By default, the Description column does not appear in the grid. To add the Description column to the

grid, click the icon and select the Description checkbox.

Creator: The name of the user who created the form.

Created: The date and time the form was created.

Modified: The date and time the form was changed.

Status: Indicates if the form is active or inactive.

: Use to select the columns that appear in the grid.

Note: To return the grid columns to their default state, click Reset to defaults from the Select Columns list().

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Create a New Form

Quality Management forms are included in evaluation sessions. These forms enable evaluators to obtain feedback

about how an agent is functioning, and subsequently determine what the agent needs to do to maximize your business

goals and customer satisfaction.

To create a new quality management form:

1. Click Quality > Forms Manager. The Forms Manager grid appears.

2. Click New Form. A blank form appears.

3. In the Untitled Form field enter a name for the form.

4. In the Description field enter a description about the form you are creating. (optional)

5. Click Insert and select to create a group of questions, add a group with an existing question type or add an

existing question group from the Question Library.

Note: By default one empty group already exists when you create a new form. For example, a form about

agent/customer communication could have a group of questions called Interaction, containing questions about

the interaction and another group called Agent, containing questions about how the agent handled the

interaction.

For details about how to create, edit and use question groups, see: Question Library.

6. In the fields provided, add a group name and group description.

7. Click Insert Question to add a question to the group and select one of the following question types:

For details about each question type refer to: Form Questions.

Question Description

Yes/No or

N/A

A question whose expected answer is either yes, no or not applicable.

Choose

from List

A closed ended question that enables the user to select multiple answers from a list of

choices.

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Multiple

Choice

A closed ended question that enables the user to select one answer from a list of answers.

Free Form A text box for users to input short answers to the question.

Sliding Scale

A scale with a minimum and maximum value, where the maximum value represents a

stronger association to the question.

8. If a question is mandatory, select the Required check box.

When Required is selected, the user must answer the question before completing the form.

Note: You can move the location of a question using the arrows provided .

9. Repeat steps 5-8 until the form contains all of the groups and questions you want.

Tip: Click Clone Group to create a copy of an existing group of questions.

10. Click Auto-fail for a Yes/No, Multiple Choice, the minimum Sliding Scale value or Choose from List answer,

to create a form that will automatically fail when the user selects an answer to one of these questions.

11. Click Done when you complete a group of questions. All of the group options will disappear and the group will

appear as it will in the final form.

Note: To edit the same group simply click within the group. The group options will reappear.

12. Click Weighting... to assign your questions a weight.

Weights can only be assigned to Multiple Choice, Yes/No, Choose from List and Sliding Scale questions.

The weights indicate the relative importance of each question and are used by the system to calculate the form's

score.

The sum of the weights for each form and each group must be 100%.

Note: Each form must contain at least one question that can be given a weight. For more information see:

Configure Question Weights.

13. Click the Preview Form icon to review the form before you save it.

14. Click the Active/Inactive option to activate/deactivate the form. (optional)

Only an active form can be attached to an evaluation. An inactive form is not available and cannot be associated

with an evaluation.

In addition, an active form cannot be edited.

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15. Click Save to save the form. The screen reloads with the Forms Manager and the new form appears in the

list.

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Form Questions

A Quality Management form can contain one or more of the following question types:

Yes/No

Multiple Choice

Choose from List

Free Form

Sliding Scale

Note: Weights are assigned to Multiple Choice, Choose from List, Yes/No and Sliding Scale questions. The weights

indicate the relative importance of each question and are used by the system to calculate the form's score. For more

information, see Configure Question Weights.

Yes/No:

A Yes/No question requires the user to select one answer.

The question offers three answers: Yes, No or Not Applicable (N/A).

To add a Yes/No question:

1. In a new or existing form, click Insert in the form group to which you want to add the Yes/No question.

2. Select Yes/No. The question appears without a title but with the two options (Yes, No).

3. Click the Question Title field and enter the question.

4. Click the Question Description field and enter a description for the question. You can expand the Question

Description field (click and drag the bottom right corner) and enter up to 4096 characters.

5. Click Add N/A to add the not applicable option.

6. If the question is mandatory, select the Required check box.

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selected .

8. Click Done.

Multiple Choice:

A Multiple Choice question enables the user to select one answer from a list of answers.

To add a Multiple Choice question:

1. In a new or existing form, click Insert in the form group to which you want to add the Multiple Choice

question.

2. Select Multiple Choice. The question appears without a title and the statement "No answers defined".

3. Click the Question Title field and enter the question.

4. Click the Question Description field and enter a description for the question. You can expand the Question

Description field (click and drag the bottom right corner) and enter up to 4096 characters.

5. Click Add new choice to add the first of a number of choices.

6. Repeat step #5 until you have added all the possible answers.

When the form is saved, a list of radio buttons will appear along with the answers.

7. If the question is mandatory, select the Required check box associated with the specific question.

8. Click Auto Fail next to the answer that will cause the entire form to fail and receive a score of 0 when selected.

9. Click Done.

Choose from List:

A Choose from List question enables the user to select multiple answers from a list of choices.

To add a Choose from List question:

1. In a new or existing form, click Insert in the form group to which you want to add the Choose from List

question.

2. Select Choose from List. The question appears without a title and the statement "No answers defined".

3. Click the Question Title field and enter the question.

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4. Click the Question Description field and enter a description for the question. You can expand the Question

Description field (click and drag the bottom right corner) and enter up to 4096 characters.

5. Click Add new choice to add the first of a number of answers.

6. Repeat step #5 until you have added all the Choose from List answers.

When the form is saved, a list of check boxes will appear along with the answers.

7. If the question is mandatory, select the Required check box.

8. Click Auto Fail next to the answer that will cause the entire form to fail and receive a score of 0 when selected.

9. Click Done.

Free Form:

A Free Form question enables the user to freely formulate an answer.

To add a Free Form question:

1. In a new or existing form, click Insert in the form group to which you want to add the Free Form question.

2. Select Free Form. The question appears without a title.

3. Click the Question Title field and enter the question.

4. Click the Question Description field and enter a description for the question. You can expand the Question

Description field (click and drag the bottom right corner) and enter up to 4096 characters.

When the form is saved, the question appears with a text field in which the user can write a response.

5. If the question is mandatory, select the Required check box.

6. Click Done.

Sliding Scale:

A Sliding Scale question enables the user to set a scale with a minimum and maximum value, where the maximum value

represents a stronger association to the question.

To add a Sliding Scale question:

1. In a new or existing form, click Insert in the form group to which you want to add the Sliding Scale question.

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2. Select Sliding Scale. The question appears without a title.

3. Click the Question Title field and enter the question.

4. Click the Question Description field and enter a description for the question. You can expand the Question

Description field (click and drag the bottom right corner) and enter up to 4096 characters.

5. From the menus provided select a minimum and maximum value.

6. In the Minimum text box, provide a name for the minimum value.

7. In the Maximum text box, provide a name for the maximum value.

8. If the question is mandatory, select the Required check box.

9. Click Auto Fail to cause the entire form to fail and receive a score of 0 when the minimum is selected.

10. Click Done.

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Question Library

A Quality Management form must contain one or more questions. Each question is part of a group.

The question group can be saved for later use in the Question library.

Once a question group is saved in the Question library, you can add it to one or more forms as often as required. You

can also edit a question group either in the Question library or in the form. Once you edit and change a question group

in the form, you can give it a new name and add it to the Question library as a new question group.

With the Quality Management - Question library you can:

Add a question group to a form.

Create a question group.

Edit a question group.

To add a question group to form:

1. Click Quality > Forms Manager. The Forms Manager grid appears.

2. Click New Form or the name of an existing form in the Name column.

3. Click Insert Group > From Library.... The Insert question group window appears.

4. Select the question group(s) you want to add to the form.

5. Click Insert. The question group is added to the form.

To create a question group:

1. Click Quality > Forms Manager. The Forms Manager grid appears.

2. Click New Form or open an existing form.

3. Click Insert Group and select one of the following options:

Insert Group: To create a new empty group.

Yes No: To create a new group with one Yes No question.

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Multiple Choice: To create a new group with one Multiple Choice question.

Choose from list: To create a new group with one Choose from list question.

Free form: To create a new group with one Free form question.

Sliding scale: To create a new group with one Sliding scale question.

From Library...: To enter an existing question group.

For details about each question type, see Form Questions.

4. Enter a group name in the Untitled Group field.

5. Add one or more questions to the group.

6. Click Add to library.... The Add to Question Library window appears.

7. Click Add. A success message appears.

Note: If a question group with the same name already exists you will be asked to give the question group a new

name.

8. Click View in Question Library. The Question Group Library window is opened and the question group

appears among the list of existing question groups.

9. Click Cancel to close the library.

To edit a question group:

1. Click Quality > Forms Manager. The Forms Manager grid appears.

2. Click New Form or open an existing form.

3. Create a new group and click Add to library... (see: Create a question group) or click Insert Group > From

Library....

4. From the Question Group list, select the question group you want to edit.

5. Click Edit and add/remove questions from the group.

6. Click Save. The question group is saved with your changes.

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Configure Question Weights

Weights are assigned to Multiple Choice, Yes/No, Choose from list and Sliding Scale questions.

The weights indicate the relative importance of each question and are used by the system to calculate the form's score.

Before you create a form consider the following:

The sum of the group weights for each form must be 100%. If the sum of the group weights is not 100%, the

form cannot be activated.

The sum of the questions within each group must be 100%. If the sum of the questions weights within a group is

not 100%, the form cannot be activated.

A question weight can be a value with up to 2 decimal places. For example, 32.25.

When a question is marked as Required it must be answered.

Each Multiple Choice and Choose from List answer should be assigned a weight.

The weight for each answer, question, and/or group is either entered manually or distributed equally among the

following by clicking the Redistribute button:

Answers in a Multiple Choice question.

Answers in a Choose from list question.

All of the groups within a form.

All of the questions within a group.

Below you will find examples and basic scenarios about how weights are calculated for each of the following questions

and answers types:

Yes/No

Multiple Choice

Choose from list

Sliding Scale

Free Form

Not Applicable, Not Required or Not Answered questions

Auto Fail

Yes/No:

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The score for a Yes/No question is 100 if the answer is Yes and 0 if the answer is No.

Multiple Choice:

Each Multiple Choice answer can receive a weight from 0 to 100.

The score associated with a Multiple Choice question is the weight of the selected answer.

For example: If a Multiple Choice question has four answers, the weights can be:

Answer 1 = 0%

Answer 2 = 40 %

Answer 3 = 70 %

Answer 4 = 100%

Choose from list:

Each Choose from list answer can receive a weight. The sum of all the weights must total 100%.

The score associated with a Choose from list question is the sum of the wights of the selected answers.

For example: If a Choose from list question has four answers, the weights can be:

Answer 1 = 20%

Answer 2 = 40 %

Answer 3 = 40 %

Answer 4 = 0%

If the evaluator selects answers 1 and 3, the Choose from list question score is 60%.

Sliding Scale:

Each Scale question has a low (that is, minimum) value and high (that is, a maximum) value.

The score for the low value is 0 and the score for the high value is 100.

The Scale score is calculated as follows: (chosen value - low value) / (high value - low value) * 100%

For example:

The low value = 0 and the high value = 10.

If the evaluator selects 7, the score is (7 - 0) / (10 - 0) * 100 = 70%

Free Form:

Free form questions do not have a score and therefore they cannot be assigned a weight.

Not Applicable (N/A), Not Required and Not Answered:

A Yes/No question can include a N/A answer.

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If a question is not marked as required the evaluator does not have to answer the question.

Selecting N/A or not answering a question will not affect the final form score.

Auto Fail:

When an answer marked as Auto Fail is selected, the form will automatically fail.

The Yes/No, Multiple Choice, Choose from list questions can have answers with an Auto Fail answer, and the

minimum Sliding Scale answer can be assigned the Auto Fail value.

If the evaluator selects an Auto Fail answer for one or more questions, the total score of the form will be 0. The scores

of all remaining questions and groups will be calculated normally.

Basic Scenarios:

Scenario 1: A form has 2 groups. One group includes a N/A answer and the other group includes a question

that was not answered.

Scenario 2: A form with 2 groups where all questions are answered.

Scenario 3: A form with 2 groups where all questions are either not answered or answered N/A.

Scenario 4: A form where all the questions are Free Form questions.

Scenario 1: A form has 2 groups. One group includes a N/A answer and the other group includes a question that was

not answered.

Group One:

- 2 questions

- Group weight = 50%

Question Answer

Question Score

(%)

Question

Weight

Score

Max Possible Score

1 80% 60% 24 30

2 N/A - 40% -

Group One Score: 24 / 30 = 80%

Group Two:

- 3 questions

- Group weight = 50%

Question Answer

Question Score

(%)

Question

Weight

Score

Max Possible Score

1 50% 60% 15 30

2 20% 20% 2

Not

Answered

- 20% -

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Group Two Score: 17 / 40 = 42.5%

Total Form Score: (80% * 50%) + (42.5% * 50%) = 61%

Scenario 2: A form with 2 groups where all questions are answered.

Group One:

- 2 questions

- Group weight = 50%

Question

Question Score

(%)

Question

Weight

Question's Score

Absolute

Question's Score

Max Possible

Score

1 100% 50% 100%*50%*50%=25% 25 25

2 80% 50%

80%*50%*50%=25%

Group One Score: 45 / 50 = 90%

Group Two:

- 3 questions

- Group weight = 50%

Question

Question Score

(%)

Question

Weight

Question's Score

Absolute

Question's Score

Max Possible

Score

1 50% 60% 50%*60%*50%=15% 15 30

2 20% 20%

20%*20%*50%=2%

3 100% 20% 100%*20%*50%=10% 10 10

Group One Score: 27 / 50 = 54%

Total Form Score: (90% * 50%) + (54% * 50%) = 72%

Scenario 3: A form with 2 groups where all questions are either not answered or answered N/A. In this case, the

group is removed from the total and will not affect the form score.

Group One:

- 2 questions

- Group weight = 50%

Question Answer Question Score Question Weight Score

1 N/A - 50% -

2 N/A - 50%

Group One Score: no score

Group Two:

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- 3 questions

- Group weight = 50%

Question Answer Question Score Question Weight Score Maximum Possible Score

1 50% 60% 15 30

2 20% 20%

3 Not Answered - 20%

Group One Score: 17 / 40 = 43%

Total Form Score: 43%

Scenario 4: A form where all the questions in the for are Free Form questions.

Free Form questions do not have a weight. For this reason, this form will not have a score. The message "no score"

will appear and this form will not be included in the reports.

To configure weights for a group, question or answer:

1. Create a form with one or more groups of questions.

2. Click Weighting.... The Weighting for <form name> window appears.

3. Enter a weight for each group in the fields provided or click Redistribute to distribute the weights equally

among each group in the form.

4. Verify that the group weights total is 100.

5. Click the name of each group to see a list of the group's questions.

6. Enter a weight for each question within the group, and verify that the total of the weights for the group's

questions is 100 or click the Redistribute button to distribute the weights equally among each question within

the group.

7. If you included a Multiple Choice or Choose from list question in your group, click the name of the question to

see a list of the question's answer.

8. Enter a weight for each answer associated with the Multiple Choice or Choose from list question or click

the Redistribute button to distribute the weights equally among each answer within the question.

9. Repeat steps 5-8 for each group in the form.

10. Save the form.

Note: When the form is filled out by an evaluator, the form's score and the evaluation score are based on the

values entered during this procedure.

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Manage a Form

Once a Quality Management form is created and appears in the Forms Manager grid, you can:

Save a Form

Edit a Form

Delete a Form

Delete a Question

Copy a Form

Preview a Form

Collapse/Expand a Question Group

Note: Forms associated with one or more evaluations, or an active evaluation, cannot be edited, deleted and/or

deactivated.

To save a form:

Selecting Save enables you to save your form changes.

To save a form, you must give it a name.

1. Create a new form or open an existing form.

2. Configure the form.

3. Click Save > Save. The form is saved.

To change an existing form:

1. Select Quality > Forms Manager. The list of existing forms appears.

2. Click the name of the form you want to edit. The specific form is opened.

3. Change the form.

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4. Click Save to save your changes.

To delete a form:

You can delete a form(s) in one of two ways.

To delete one or more forms:

1. Select Quality > Forms Manager. The list of existing forms appears.

2. Select the check box associated with the form(s) you want to delete.

3. Above the Forms Manager list click Delete . The form(s) is deleted.

To delete a specific form:

1. Select Quality > Forms Manager. The list of existing forms appears.

2. Click the form you want to delete. The specific form is opened.

3. Click Delete in the top right corner of the form. The form(s) is deleted.

To delete a form question:

1. Select Quality > Forms Manager. The list of existing forms appears.

2. Click the form whose question you want to delete. The specific form is opened.

3. Click Delete next to the question you want to delete. The question is deleted.

4. Click Save > Save to save your changes.

To create a copy of an existing form:

Select Save As to create a copy of the form you are currently creating/editing.

1. Open the form you want to copy.

2. Click Save > Save as.

3. Enter a form name. A copy of the form is created and is listed in the Forms Manager grid.

To preview a form:

As you add questions and question groups to a form, you may want to see how the form appears to users.

1. In a new or existing form, click the Preview Form icon . The form appears in a new window as it will

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appear when accessed by a user.

2. Click X in the top right corner of the Preview Form window to close the preview.

To collapse/expand all the groups:

As you add questions and question groups to a form, the form can become long. You may want to either collapse all

the groups or see specific groups while hiding others.

To collapse/expand all the groups:

1. In a new or existing form, click the Collapse/Expand questions icon to expand or collapse all the

question groups.

To collapse/expand a specific group:

1. In a new or existing form, click the Collapse/Expand questions icon in the group you want to

expand or collapse.

The number in this option specifies the amount of question in the group.

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Evaluations Manager

Quality Management evaluations are the best way to evaluate and improve agent behaviors that support your business

goals.

They drive the behaviors that promote a specific agenda by enabling you to assess how well your agents are

performing during customer interactions.

With the knowledge obtained from an evaluation you can create positive customer experiences and exceed customer

expectations by:

Providing agents with objective assessments using specific criteria and customized forms.

Motivating agents with training opportunities and positive feedback.

Recognizing and keeping top employees.

Creating evaluation reports to help managers monitor agents' progress, identify training requirements, and

calibrate evaluator responses to limit variations in evaluations.

Before you create an evaluation consider the following:

Only an administrator or a user with QM Manager Role permissions can create evaluations.

SpeechMiner UI Quality Management enables you to create five types of evaluations (Distributed (Interaction +

Agent), Shared, Calibration and Ad-Hoc).

Once an evaluation is saved, one or more evaluation sessions are created according to a predefined schedule.

If you selected Interactions when working with a One Time schedule, each evaluation creates one evaluation

session for every agent associated with selected interactions and each evaluation session is assigned to each

evaluator. For example, if an evaluation contains 2 evaluators and 3 interactions (each with 1 agent), 6

evaluation sessions will be created. That is, each evaluator will be asked to fill out the evaluation for each of the

3 agents. If an evaluation contains 2 evaluators and 3 interactions (each with a set of 2 agents), 12 evaluation

sessions will be created.

If you selected Criteria when working with a One Time schedule, the interactions are randomly distributed

among the evaluators.

A Shared Evaluation session creates evaluation sessions that are not assigned to a specific evaluator. Instead,

each evaluator associated with the session can select and assign himself/herself a specific session from the

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available pool of session.

A Calibration Evaluation session is filled out in the same way as a Distributed or Shared evaluation session. But,

unlike a Distributed or Shared evaluation a Calibration evaluation can be used as part of a report that compares

the performance of two or more evaluators.

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Evaluations Manager Grid

The Quality Manager - Evaluations Manager grid contains a list of all the inactive and active evaluations.

From the grid, you can quickly see when the evaluation was created, the last time it created a session(s), etc.

The Evaluations Manager grid contains the following information and options:

New Evaluation : Use to create a new Distributed, Shared or Calibration evaluation.

Delete : Deletes the selected evaluation.

Note: When you delete an evaluation in the Evaluation Manager list, all the sessions that were created as a

result of the specific evaluation will also be deleted.

Filter by name: Enables you to search for a specific evaluation.

0 Selected: The number of forms selected in the grid.

Name: The name of the evaluation.

Note: Hover over the evaluation name to view the description of the specific evaluation.

Description: The description added to the Description field about the specific evaluation.

Note: By default, the Description column does not appear in the grid. To add the Description column to the

grid, click the icon and select the Description checkbox.

Creator: The name of the user who created the evaluation.

Evaluators: If you selected Interactions when working with a One Time schedule, this parameter indicates the

amount of evaluators associated with the specific evaluation. Each one of these evaluators will be required to

perform the same evaluation sessions. For example, if an evaluation with 3 evaluators is scheduled for over the

course of a month, and is configured to generate 30 sessions, each evaluator will receive 10 different

interactions. If you selected Criteria when working with a One Time schedule, the interactions are randomly

distributed among the evaluators.

Schedule: Indicates whether the evaluation is a one-time evaluation or a recurring evaluation.

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Type: Indicates whether the evaluation is a Distributed, Shared or Calibration evaluation. For details,

see Evaluations manager.

Form(s): Indicates the number of forms associated with the evaluation.

Last Activity: Indicates the last time the evaluation created one or more evaluation sessions..

Status: Indicates if the evaluation is active or inactive. An inactive evaluation cannot create evaluation sessions.

Created: Indicates the date on which the evaluation was created.

Evaluation Sessions: Indicates the number of evaluation sessions created as a result of the evaluation.

: Use to select the columns that appear in the grid.

Note: To return the grid columns to their default state, click Reset to defaults from the Select Columns list.

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Create an Evaluation
SpeechMiner UI Quality Management enables you to create five types of evaluations:
Distributed Interaction Evaluation: Creates evaluation sessions about interactions for selected evaluators.
Each evaluator will be assigned an evaluation session for each agent associated with the evaluation. The
evaluation is created about the agents who participated in the interactions that are added to the evaluation. For
example, if you add 2 evaluators and 3 interactions (each with a different agent) to the evaluation, 6 evaluation
sessions will be created. That is, each evaluator will be asked to fill out the evaluation for each one of the 3
agents.
Distributed Agent Evaluation: Creates evaluation sessions about one or more specific agent's performance
during customer interactions for a specific evaluator. The selected evaluator is assigned an evaluation session
associated with the selected agents. For example, if you select 18 agents to be evaluated by a specific
evaluator, 1 evaluation session will be created for each of the 18 agents according to the selected interaction
filter criteria.
Shared Evaluation: Creates evaluation sessions about an agent's performance during customer interactions
without assigning the sessions to a specific evaluator(s). Instead, each evaluator associated with the session can
select and assign himself/herself the Shared session from the available pool of Shared sessions. Once an
evaluator selects a Shared session, the specific session is no longer available to other evaluators.
Calibration Evaluation: Use this evaluation to compare evaluator performance, to ensure consistency across
teams. A Calibration Evaluation is performed on one evaluation in the same way as a Distributed Interaction
Evaluation session, the difference is that the result of these evaluation sessions can be used in a Calibration
Score report (that is, a report that compares how the evaluators filled out the same evaluation session)..
Ad-Hoc Evaluation: Creates an evaluation session for a specific interaction or segment currently being played
in the Media Player.  
 
Refer to Quality Management Workflow for a better understanding about the evaluation process.
 
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Distributed Interaction Evaluation

The SpeechMiner UI Quality Management - Distributed Interaction Evaluation creates evaluation sessions about

interactions for selected evaluators. Each evaluator will be assigned an evaluation session for each agent associated

with the evaluation. The evaluation is created about the agents who participated in the interactions that are added to

the evaluation. For example, if you add 2 evaluators and 3 interactions (each with a different agent) to the evaluation, 6

evaluation sessions will be created. That is, each evaluator will be asked to fill out the evaluation for each one of the 3

agents.

Before You Begin:

Create forms to attach to your evaluation(s).

Verify that you have been assigned a QM Manager role. For additional information see: Administer Roles.

To create a Distributed Interaction evaluation:

1. Click Quality > Evaluations Manager. The Evaluations Manager grid appears.

2. Click the drop down arrow next to New Evaluation and select Distributed > Interaction.

3. In the Untitled Evaluation field, enter the name of your evaluation.

4. In the Description field, enter a description of the evaluation.

5. From the Schedule list, select one of the following, and configure the schedule using the options available (see

table in this step):

Recurring: Creates an evaluation that repeatedly produces evaluation sessions for a configurable time

interval.

One Time: Creates an evaluation that only produces evaluation sessions once.

Option Description

Start The date on which the evaluation session(s) should be created.

The time at which the evaluation session(s) should begin.

Occur every The frequency (Days, Weeks or Months) with which the evaluation recurs.

Session

Expires after

The time (Days, Weeks or Months) by which the evaluation session should be

performed after the evaluation is created.

6. Select the Forms tab and from the Forms list, select the forms to add to the evaluation.

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As soon as you select a form from the list, it appears in the Evaluation Summary under Forms.

Select the form again to remove the form from the Evaluation Summary.

The forms selected consist of the questions that must be answered to complete the evaluation session.

7. Select the Evaluators tab and from the Evaluators list, select the evaluator(s) that should perform the

evaluation session(s).

As soon as you select an evaluator from the list (Note: you can select more than one evaluator), the evaluator

name appears in the Evaluation Summary under Evaluators.

Click on the evaluator name again to remove the evaluator from the Evaluation Summary.

Each evaluator will receive an evaluation session to evaluate the agent(s) associated with the selected

interactions.

When you select more than one evaluator, the resulting Evaluation Sessions are evenly distributed across

evaluators in Round Robin fashion.

8. Select the Interactions tab.

a. Recurring or One Time.

If you selected a Recurring schedule in step #5, you cannot select the interactions yourself. The resulting

interaction list associated with the evaluation, corresponds to what you entered in the search filter.

If you selected a One Time schedule, select one of the following:

Interactions: Enables you to select interactions from the list of interactions created after you click

Search.

Interaction Criteria: Randomly selects interactions from the interaction list resulting from your

specific search. The amount of interactions selected correspond to what you entered in the

Exactly field.

Note: The default value in the Exactly field is 100 and the maximum value is 1000. These values

are configurable.

b. Configure the evaluation filter options on the left side of the screen, to generate a list of interactions.

Your filter selections should be directly related to the business issue for which you want to evaluate an

agent(s).

For additional information, see Search Filter.

c. Click Search.

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Note: If you selected Interactions in step 8a, from the list provided select the interactions (one at a

time) that you would like to add to the evaluation.

As soon as you select an interaction from the list, it appears in the Evaluation Summary under

Interactions.

Clear an interaction's check box to remove that specific interaction from the Evaluation Summary

Tip: You can play back an interaction to verify its relevance to the purpose of the evaluation. Simply click the

Play icon associated with the interaction you want to hear. For more information about playing an

interaction, see Media Player.

9. Click the Inactive option to activate the evaluation. Only an active evaluation will

create evaluation sessions.

10. Click Save and Activate. Once the evaluation is saved and activated, it will start to create evaluation sessions

according to the schedule configured at the beginning of this procedure.

Note: the Evaluation Session list will automatically refresh when a new set of evaluation sessions is available. To

manually refresh the Evaluation Session list, click the Refresh button .

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Distributed Agent Evaluation

The SpeechMiner UI Quality Management - Distributed Agent Evaluation creates evaluation sessions about one or

more specific agent performances during customer interactions. The Distributed Agent Evaluation is assigned to one

evaluator. The selected evaluator is assigned an evaluation session associated with the selected agent. For example, if

you select 18 agents to be evaluated by a specific evaluator, 1 evaluation session will be created for each of the 18

agents according to the selected interaction filter criteria.

Before You Begin:

Create forms to attach to your evaluation(s).

Verify that you have been assigned a QM Manager role. For additional information see: Permissions.

To create a Distributed Agent Evaluation:

1. Click Quality > Evaluations Manager. The Evaluations Manager grid appears.

2. Click the drop down arrow next to New Evaluation and select Distributed > Agent.

3. In the Untitled Evaluation field, enter the name of your evaluation.

4. In the Description field, enter a description of the evaluation.

5. From the Schedule list select one of the following, and configure the schedule using the options available (see

table in this step):

Recurring: Use to create an evaluation that repeatedly produces evaluation sessions for a configurable

time interval.

One Time: Use to create an evaluation that only produces evaluation sessions once.

Option Description

Start The date on which the evaluation session(s) should be created.

The time at which the evaluation session(s) should begin.

Occur every The frequency (Days, Weeks or Months) with which the evaluation recurs.

Session

Expires after

The time (Days, Weeks or Months) by which the evaluation session should be

performed after the evaluation is created.

6. Select the Forms tab. From the Forms list, select the forms to add to the evaluation.

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As soon as you select a form from the list, it appears in the Evaluation Summary under Forms. Select the form

again to remove the form from the Evaluation Summary. The forms selected consist of the questions that must

be answered to complete the evaluation session.

7. Select the Evaluators tab and from the Evaluators list, select the evaluator(s) that should perform the

evaluation session(s).

As soon as you select an evaluator from the list (Note: you can select more than one evaluator), the evaluator

name appears in the Evaluation Summary under Evaluators.

Click on the evaluator name again to remove the evaluator from the Evaluation Summary.

Each evaluator will receive an evaluation session to evaluate the agent(s) associated with the selected

interactions.

When you select more than one evaluator, the resulting Evaluation Sessions are evenly distributed across

evaluators in Round Robin fashion.

For example:

When an evaluation is created with 3 Evaluators, 2 Agents and 10 Interactions

Evaluator 1 - Session 1,4,7,10

Evaluator 2 - Session 2,5,8

Evaluator 3 - Session 3,6,9

Agent A

Agent B

The sessions are distributed as follows:

Evaluator 1 - Session A1, A4, A7, A10, B3, B6, B9

Evaluator 2 - Session A2, A5, A8, B1, B4, B7, B10

Evaluator 3 - Session A3, A6, A9, B2, B5, B8

8. Select the Agents tab. From the Agents list, select the agent(s) whose interactions you want to evaluate.

As soon as you select an agent from the list, the agent's name appears in the Evaluation Summary under

Agents. Select the agent again to remove the agent from the Evaluation Summary.

If you select a manager, the sessions will only be created for the agents associated with the selected manager

and not for the manager.

9. Select the Interactions tab.

Note: You cannot manually select a list of Interactions. The resulting interaction list associated with the

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evaluation, corresponds to what you entered in the search filter.

a. Recurring or One Time.

If you selected a Recurring schedule in step #5, you cannot select the interactions yourself. The resulting

interaction list associated with the evaluation, corresponds to what you entered in the search filter.

If you selected a One Time schedule, select one of the following:

Interactions: Enables you to select interactions from the list of interactions created after you click

Search.

Interaction Criteria: Randomly selects interactions from the interaction list resulting from your

specific search. The amount of interactions selected correspond to what you entered in the

Exactly field.

b. Configure the evaluation filter options on the left side of the screen, to generate a list of interactions.

Your filter selections should be directly related to the business issue for which you want to evaluate an

agent(s).

For additional information, see Search Filter.

c. In the Exactly field under Interaction Criteria, enter the amount of interactions that should be selected

when the Evaluation is run. Interactions are randomly selected from the interaction list results according

to the amount in the Exactly field.

Note: The default value in the Exactly field is 3 and the maximum value is 30. These values are

configurable.

d. Click Search.

Tip: You can play back an interaction to verify its relevancy to the purpose of the evaluation. Simply

click the Play icon associated with the interaction you want to hear. For more information about

playing an interaction, see Media Player.

10. Click the Inactive option to activate the evaluation. Only an active evaluation will

create evaluation sessions.

11. Click Save and Activate. Once the evaluation is saved and activated, it will start to create evaluation sessions

according to the schedule configured at the beginning of this procedure.

Note: The Evaluation Session list will automatically refresh when a new set of evaluation sessions is available.

To manually refresh the Evaluation Session list, click the Refresh button .

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Shared Evaluation

The SpeechMiner UI Quality Management - Distributed Shared Evaluation creates evaluation sessions about an

agent's performance during customer interactions without assigning the sessions to a specific evaluator. Instead, each

evaluator associated with the session can select and assign himself/herself the Shared session from the available pool of

Shared sessions. Once an evaluator selects a Shared session, the specific session is no longer available to other

evaluators.

Before You Begin:

Create forms to attach to your evaluation(s).

Verify that you have been assigned a QM Manager role. For additional information see: Administer Roles.

To create a Shared Evaluation:

1. Click Quality > Evaluations Manager. The Evaluations Manager grid appears.

2. Click the drop down arrow next to New Evaluation and select Shared.

3. In the Untitled Evaluation field, enter the name of your evaluation.

4. In the Description field, enter a description of the evaluation.

5. From the Schedule list select one of the following, and configure the schedule using the options available (see

table in this step):

Recurring: Use to create an evaluation that repeatedly produces evaluation sessions for a configurable

time interval.

One Time: Use to create an evaluation that only produces evaluation sessions once.

Option Description

Start The date on which the evaluation session(s) should be created.

The time at which the evaluation session(s) should begin.

Occur every The frequency (Days, Weeks or Months) with which the evaluation recurs.

Session

Expires after

The time (Days, Weeks or Months) by which the evaluation session should be

performed after the evaluation is created.

6. Select the Forms tab and from the Forms list, select the forms to add to the evaluation.

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As soon as you select a form from the list, it appears in the Evaluation Summary under Forms.

Select the form again to remove the form from the Evaluation Summary.

The forms selected consist of the questions that must be answered to complete the evaluation session.

7. Select the Evaluators tab and from the Evaluators list, select the evaluator(s) that should perform the

evaluation session(s).

As soon as you select an evaluator from the list (Note: you can select more than one evaluator), the evaluator

name appears in the Evaluation Summary under Evaluators.

Click on the evaluator name again to remove the evaluator from the Evaluation Summary.

Each evaluator will receive an evaluation session to evaluate the agent(s) associated with the selected

interactions.

When you select more than one evaluator, the resulting Evaluation Sessions are evenly distributed across

evaluators in Round Robin fashion.

8. Select the Interactions tab.

a. Select Recurring or One Time.

If you selected a Recurring schedule in step #5, you cannot select the interactions yourself. The resulting

interaction list associated with the evaluation, corresponds to what you entered in the search filter.

If you selected a One Time schedule, select one of the following:

Interactions: Enables you to select interactions from the list of interactions created after you click

Search.

Interaction Criteria: Randomly selects interactions from the interaction list resulting from your

specific search. The amount of interactions selected correspond to what you entered in the

Exactly field.

Note: The default value in the Exactly field is 100 and the maximum value is 1000. These values

are configurable.

b. Configure the evaluation filter options on the left side of the screen, to generate a list of interactions.

Your filter selections should be directly related to the business issue for which you want to evaluate an

agent(s).

For additional information, see Search Filter.

c. Click Search.

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Note: If you selected Interactions in step 8a, from the list provided select the interactions (one at a

time) that you would like to add to the evaluation.

As soon as you select an interaction from the list, it appears in the Evaluation Summary under

Interactions.

Clear an interaction's check box to remove that specific interaction from the Evaluation Summary

Tip: You can play back an interaction to verify its relevancy to the purpose of the evaluation. Simply click the

Play icon associated with the interaction you want to hear. For more information about playing an

interaction, see Media Player.

9. Click the Inactive option to activate the evaluation. Only an active evaluation will

create evaluation sessions.

10. Click Save and Activate. Once the evaluation is saved and activated, it will start to create evaluation sessions

according to the schedule configured at the beginning of this procedure.

Note: the Evaluation Session list will automatically refresh when a new set of evaluation sessions is available. To

manually refresh the Evaluation Session list, click the Refresh button .

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Calibration Evaluation

The SpeechMiner UI Quality Management - Calibration Evaluation creates evaluation sessions that can be used to

compare evaluator performance, to ensure consistency across teams. A Calibration Evaluation is performed on one

evaluation in the same way as a Distributed Interaction Evaluation session, the difference is that the result of these

evaluation sessions can be used in a Calibration Score report (that is, a report that compares how the evaluators filled

out the same evaluation session).

Before You Begin:

Create forms to attach to your evaluation(s).

Verify that you have been assigned a QM Manager role. For additional information see: Permissions.

To create an Calibration Evaluation:

1. Click Quality > Evaluations Manager. The Evaluations Manager grid appears.

2. Click the drop down arrow next to New Evaluation and select Calibration.

3. In the Untitled Evaluation field, enter the name of your evaluation.

4. In the Description field, enter a description of the evaluation.

5. In the Session Expires after field, enter the time (Days, Weeks or Months) by which the evaluation session

should be performed after the evaluation is created.

6. Select the Forms tab and from the Forms list, select the forms to add to the evaluation.

As soon as you select a form from the list, it appears in the Evaluation Summary under Forms. Select the form

again to remove the form from the Evaluation Summary. The forms selected consist of the questions that must

be answered to complete the evaluation session.

7. Select the Evaluators tab and from the Evaluators list, select the evaluator(s) that should perform the

evaluation session(s).

As soon as you select an evaluator from the list (Note: you can select more than one evaluator), the evaluator

name appears in the Evaluation Summary under Evaluators.

Click on the evaluator name again to remove the evaluator from the Evaluation Summary.

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Each evaluator will receive an evaluation session to evaluate the agent(s) associated with the selected

interactions.

When you select more than one evaluator, the resulting Evaluation Sessions are evenly distributed across

evaluators in Round Robin fashion.

8. Select the Interactions tab, configure the evaluation filter options on the left side of the screen, to generate a

list of interactions and click Search.

Note: A Calibration evaluation has a One Time schedule. It creates an evaluation that only produces one

evaluation session.

A Calibration evaluation cannot be a Recurring evaluation.

Your filter selections should be directly related to the business issue for which you want to evaluate an agent(s).

For additional information, see Search Filter.

a. Select one interaction.

As soon as you select an interaction from the list, it appears in the Evaluation Summary under

Interactions. Clear an interaction's check box to remove that specific interaction from the Evaluation

Summary.

Note: If you select more than one interaction, the Calibration Evaluation session will be not activated.

9. Click the Inactive option to activate the evaluation. Only an active evaluation will

create evaluation sessions.

10. Click Save and Activate. Once the evaluation is saved and activated, it will start to create evaluation sessions

according to the schedule configured at the beginning of this procedure.

Note: the Evaluation Session list will automatically refresh when a new set of evaluation sessions is available. To

manually refresh the Evaluation Session list, click the Refresh button .

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Create an Ad-Hoc Evaluation Session

The Ad-Hoc evaluation enables you to create an evaluation session for a specific interaction or segment currently

being played in the Media Player.

Before you create and/or perform an Ad-Hoc evaluation, consider the following:

By default, the Ad-Hoc evaluation will expire 24 hours after it is created.

An Ad-Hoc evaluation is only visible to the user who created it and to users with the permission to edit all

evaluation sessions.

An Ad-Hoc evaluation can only be created from the Media Player > More options menu for the interaction

currently being played.

To create an Ad-Hoc evaluation session:

1. Select an interaction and click Play . For more information about playing an interaction, see Media Player.

2. Click More in the Media Player and select Evaluate. The Evaluate Interaction window appears.

3. Enter a name in the Evaluation Name field.

4. From the Form(s) list, select the forms that should be included in the Ad-Hoc evaluation session. For additional

details about Forms, see Forms Manager.

5. Click Create. The new Ad-Hoc evaluation session is opened.

6. Perform the evaluation. For details on how to perform an evaluation session, see Perform an Evaluation

Session.

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Evaluation Sessions

To help ensure that an agent's participation in an interaction coincides with a specific business agenda, SpeechMiner

UI Quality Management evaluators receive a list of evaluation sessions that they must fill out according to a

configurable schedule.

A completed evaluation session provides a view into how an agent communicates with consumers. Such evaluation

sessions provide consistent and regular feedback that helps surface insightful reports, comments and suggestions that

can lead to formal skills training and action plans to improve an agent's performance.

Before you perform an evaluation consider the following:

Every evaluation session is associated with one interaction. When working with a Recording license, every

evaluation session is associated with one segment.

An evaluation session can be saved and continued at a later time. Only when you select Complete will the

evaluation session end.

You can export an uncompleted evaluation session. When you export an uncompleted evaluation session, an

uncompleted prefix is added to the exported file.

A Shared Evaluation session creates evaluation sessions that are not assigned to a specific evaluator. Instead,

each evaluator associated with the session can select and assign himself/herself a specific session from the

available session pool.

Archived evaluation sessions are removed from the Evaluation Session grid, and will only be visible when you

filter to view archived sessions.

A Calibration Evaluation session is filled out in the same way as a Distributed or Shared evaluation session. But,

unlike a Distributed or Shared evaluation a Calibration Evaluation can be used as part of a report that compares

the performance of two or more evaluators.

If your system includes an Analytics license each evaluation contains the specific interaction's transcript.

When performing an evaluation, you have the option of enabling the evaluator to see their evaluation score when

the evaluation session is completed.

To complete an evaluation session, you must answer all the required questions in all the forms associated with

the specific evaluation session.

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An evaluation session score is visible throughout the evaluation session.

You can select the Default scores to 100% option to turn on all the default answers in all the forms in the

specific Evaluation Session. When this option is turned on the form score is 100%. Also, when this option is

turned on or off, all the information entered up to this point will be deleted. Once the evaluator chooses to turn

on the Default scores to 100% option, and subsequently answer all the questions in the form, the evaluator

can change the default answers and reduce the score.

Note: The Default scores to 100% option does not exempt you from answering questions marked as

Autofail.

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Evaluation Sessions Grid

The Quality Manager - Evaluations Sessions grid contains a list of all evaluation sessions an evaluator must fill out.

From the grid you can:

View which evaluation sessions were started, in progress and or completed

View whether or not a session was assigned to an evaluator and which evaluator it was assigned to.

Filter the evaluation session list to quickly find and work with a subset of the list.

The Evaluations Sessions grid contains the following information and options:

: Enables you to delete the selected evaluation session.

: Enables you to refresh the Evaluation Session grid with the latest evaluation sessions.

: Use to archive selected evaluation sessions and remove them from the grid.

Filter by name: Enables you to search for a specific evaluation session according to the session's name.

0 Selected: The number of evaluation session selected in the grid.

Filter: Select one or more of the following filter options to limit the evaluation session list, so you can quickly

find the information you are looking for:

Sessions - Filter the list to show all unarchived evaluation sessions.

Archived - Filter the list to only show archived evaluation sessions.

Expired - Filter the list to only show expired evaluation sessions.

Status - Filter the list to only show sessions that have not been started, are in progress and/or have been

completed.

Types - Filter the list to only show distributed, shared, calibration and/or ad-hoc sessions.

Creation Date - Filter the list to only show sessions that were created on a specific date.

Due Date - Filter the list to only show sessions that should be completed on a specific date.

Completion Date - Filter the list to only show sessions that were completed on a specific date.

Agent - Filter the list to only show sessions associated with a specific agent.

Evaluator - Filter the list to only show sessions associated with a specific evaluator.

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Unassigned - Filter the list to only show sessions that have not been assigned to an evaluator.

Search - Click Search to create a list of Evaluation Sessions that match your filter selections.

Name: The name of the evaluation session.

Evaluator: The name of the evaluator to whom the evaluation session was assigned.

Note: Unassigned sessions are only associated with Shared Evaluations. Unassigned signifies that you can

select the session and assign it to yourself if you are part of the selected evaluators. Once you assign an

Unassigned session to yourself, your name will appear in the Evaluator column.

Interaction ID: The interaction in which the agent participated.

Agent: The agent for which the evaluation session was created.

Description: Contains an explanation about the specific evaluation session.

Type: Indicates whether the evaluation session is a Distributed, Shared or Calibration session. For details,

see Create an Evaluation.

Form(s): The number of forms associated with the evaluation session.

Created: The date on which the evaluation session was created.

Due: The date on which the evaluation session must be completed.

Completed: The date on which the evaluation session was completed.

Status: Indicates the status of the evaluation:

In Progress: The evaluation has started, but has not been completed.

Ready: The evaluation has not started.

Completed: Th evaluation session has been completed.

Creator: The name of the person who created the evaluation session.

Score: The score the agent received as a result of the evaluation.

: Enables you to select the columns that appear in the Evaluations Manager grid.

Note: To return the grid columns to their default state, click Reset to defaults from the Select Columns list.

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Perform an Evaluation Session

The results of an evaluation session provides data in a way that makes it easier to identify the skill sets of your agents,

as well as any skill gaps that need to be filled by additional training.

Note: When performing an evaluation session

You can always click the Clear Form option at the bottom of the form to clear all of your input.

You can select the Default scores to 100% option to turn on all the default answers in all the forms in the

specific Evaluation Session. When this option is turned on the form score is 100%. Also, when this option is

turned on or off, all the information entered up to this point will be deleted. Once the evaluator chooses to turn

on the Default scores to 100% option, and subsequently answer all the questions in the form, the evaluator

can change the default answers and reduce the score.

Note: The Default scores to 100% option does not exempt you from answering questions marked as

Autofail.

To perform an evaluation session:

1. Click Quality > Evaluation Sessions. The Evaluation Sessions grid appears.

2. Configure the filter parameters (on the left side of the screen), to create a list of Evaluation Sessions that

best match the information you are looking for.

For details about the filter parameters see: Evaluation Sessions Grid.

3. Click Search.

4. Click the name of the evaluation you want to perform.

Note: If you select an Unassigned evaluation session, you will be asked to confirm that the specific

session should be assigned to you.

5. From the Form list at the top of the screen, select the first form you want to fill out.

Once you complete the selected form, continue filling out the remaining forms.

6. Answer the questions provided. If necessary, click +More to view the entire question.

Note: You cannot complete an evaluation session without answering all the required form questions.

Required form questions are marked with a red star *.

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7. Click the Play icon to playback the interaction to hear the discussion between the agent and the

customer. (optional). For more information about playing an interaction, refer to Media Player.

8. Click the inactive Show score option to enable the evaluator to see the evaluation

session scores during the evaluation and a final score when the evaluation is completed.

For more details about scores see Configure Question Weights.

9. If the interaction is not suitable in any way (for example, poor audio/video quality, irrelevant interaction,

and so on), you can click the Replace Interaction icon to select a different interaction for the

evaluation session (optional).

Note: The Replace Interaction option is only available in evaluation sessions associated with interactions

derived from a search criteria. Evaluation sessions associated with manually selected interactions,

Calibration evaluations and Ad-Hoc evaluations will not include the Replace Interaction option.

Replacing the interaction associated with the evaluation session will reset all the answers in the form(s)

associated with the same evaluation session.

10. Select one of the following options:

Note: When an evaluation session is completed, the interaction associated with the evaluation session is

automatically tagged Evaluated.

The Evaluated tag (visible both in the Search Filters and the Search Results grid) enables you to

recognize interactions that have already been part of an evaluation session and subsequently prevents

evaluated interactions from being reused.

Scroll down to the bottom of the form and click Complete to finalize the evaluation session. A

summary of the completed evaluation session appears.

a. Click Show More Options: for the following options:

Export Session to CSV: Downloads the evaluation session to an Excel (password

protected) document and is saved in a location of your choice.

Export Session to PDF: Downloads the evaluation session to a PDF document

and is saved in a location of your choice.

Notify agent of results: Creates an action item for the agent associated with the

specific evaluation session. See the Notify agent bullet below for further

instructions.

b. Click Complete at the bottom of the window to finalize this process. The process will

continue according to your Show More Options: selection. The evaluation session's status

in the Evaluation Session grid will change to Completed.

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In the top right corner of the screen, open the Save menu and select one of the following options:

Save: Save your work so you can continue at a later time. If you select to save the

evaluation session, its status in the Evaluation Session grid will be In Progress.

Complete: Finalize the evaluation session. A summary of the completed evaluation session

appears.

a. Click Show More Options: for the following options:

Export Session to CSV: Downloads the evaluation session to an Excel

(password protected) document that is saved in a location of your choice.

Export Session to PDF: Downloads the evaluation session to a PDF

document that is saved in a location of your choice.

Notify agent of results: Creates an action item for the agent associated with

the specific evaluation session. See the Notify agent bullet below for further

instructions.

b. Click Complete at the bottom of the window to finalize this process. The process

will continue according to your Show More Options: selection. The evaluation

session's status in the Evaluation Session grid will change to Completed.

Note: You can edit a session with an expired due date, but you cannot select Complete if

the session due date has passed.

Export to CSV: Create a .csv file that contains evaluation session details in an Excel

worksheet. Since the evaluation session has not been completed, an uncompleted prefix will

be added to the exported file.

Export to PDF: Create a Adobe PDF file that contains evaluation session details.

Close: Close the evaluation session without saving your work.

Notify agent: Send the agent associated with the evaluation an action item about the

specific evaluation. The Add Action Item window appears.

1. In the window that appears, enter a due date by which the specific agent must

perform this action item, enter what you would like the agent to do in the Summary

field and select the Show the agent his/her evaluation score checkbox if you

want the agent to be aware of the score he/she received.

To learn more about scores refer to Configure Question Weights.

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2. Click Complete. An Evaluator Message is added to the specific agent's Action

Items list. See Action Items for additional details.

Note:

You do not have to wait to complete the evaluation session to select Save >

Notify agent. You can send the action item at anytime during the evaluation

session.

When the agent opens the new Notify Agent action item (Type:

EvaluatorMessage), he/she can review the specific evaluation session and

send a response back to the evaluator. In the Evaluator Message action item,

the Summary instructions are a link to the associated evaluation session.

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Open and Edit a Completed Evaluation Session

A completed evaluation session provides an overview of the agent's productivity in relation to a specific business goal.

After an evaluation session is completed users assigned to the evaluation session can change the question's answers.

Once this change is saved the evaluation session score is automatically updated.

Note: Users who are given the Edit All Evaluation Sessions permission, can also edit and complete evaluation

sessions not assigned to them, if the session contains interactions they have permission to view.

To open and edit a completed evaluation session:

1. Click Quality > Evaluation Sessions. The Evaluation Sessions grid appears.

2. Click the name of the completed evaluation session you want to review. The completed evaluation opens with

the following options:

Form List: View the different evaluation session forms and the given answers.

Show Score: View the evaluation session score. The score appears next to the Form list and within the

exported Excel worksheet.

The score is automatically updated if a change is made to one or more answers.

Save: Select one of the following options:

Save: Save your work so you can continue at a later time.

Export to CSV: Create a .csv file that contains evaluation session details in an Excel worksheet.

Since the evaluation session has not been completed, an uncompleted prefix will be added to the

exported file.

Export to PDF: Create a Adobe PDF file that contains evaluation session details.

Note: You can select the Export option even if the evaluation session has not been completed. In

this case, a uncompleted prefix will be added to the exported file

Close: Close the evaluation session without saving your work.

Notify agent: Send the agent associated with the evaluation an action item about the specific

evaluation. For details about each of these options, refer to Perform an Evaluation Session.

External ID: A unique number assigned to the interaction in the SpeechMiner UI database.

Media Player: Play back the interaction associated with the evaluation session. For more information

about playing an interaction, refer to Media Player.

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Session Characteristics: To see when the session was last changed and who changed it, click the

arrow in the top right corner of the screen next to the date and time and notice the information associated

with Last edited by.

Default scores to 100%: Turn on all the default answers in all the forms in the specific Evaluation

Session. When this option is turned on the form score is 100%. Also, when this option is turned on or

off, all the information entered up to this point will be deleted. Once the evaluator chooses to turn on the

Default scores to 100% option, and subsequently answer all the questions in the form, the evaluator can

change the default answers and reduce the score.

Note: The Default scores to 100% option does not exempt you from answer questions marked as

Autofail.

3. Edit the session if required.

4. Click Save to save your changes.

Note: If you do not save your changes when you change an evaluation session's answers, your changes will not effect

the session score.

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Archive an Evaluation Session

Archiving evaluation sessions, enables you to remove sessions no longer needed online, but which must still be

accessible at a later date if required. That is, archived sessions will be removed from the session grid, and will only be

visible when the user filters to view archived sessions. By limiting the number of sessions that appear, archiving also

enables you to maximize performance by minimizing search and filter response times.

There are two types of archiving options:

Manual Archive - Enables you to select specific sessions to archive.

Automatic Archive - Enables you to schedule archiving after a specific period of time.

Note: You can only archive completed and expired evaluation sessions.

To manually archive an evaluation session:

1. Select Quality > Evaluation Sessions. A list of evaluation sessions appears.

2. Select the evaluation sessions you want to archive.

3. Click the Archive button . The selected sessions are removed from the grid and archived.

Note: if the Archive button is not visible, you do not have the permission required for archiving sessions.

To automatically archive an evaluation session:

Automatic archive is configured when the entire system is installed and configured.

To change how often Automatic archive is run, you must change the default value.

To change the default value refer to SpeechMiner UI Administration Guide > Configuring SpeechMiner UI >

Additional Configurations > Archive QM Evaluation Sessions.

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Coaching

The coaching system is designed so you can create coaching sessions that can help managers, supervisors, quality-

monitoring personnel and agents manage training objectives.

Both novice and experienced personnel can benefit from taking part in a coaching session. New employees can be

introduced to their jobs and veterans can be encouraged to fine-tune their techniques by means of coaching sessions

that highlight specific interactions. For example, the coach and agent can listen to example interactions that highlight

and demonstrate to the agent how to properly interact with a customer.

Coaching sessions consist of lists of interactions that the trainee is asked to listen to, either in part or in their entirety.

The interactions may include notes, Action Items, and links to other sites. While anyone with the required permissions

can open a new coaching session, it is the session's coach who designs the session by defining the Interaction Lists,

Action Items, and links, and by adding notes to guide the trainee through the session.

In this section you will learn how to:

Create a Coaching Session: Manage training objectives.

Participate in a Coaching Session: Learn about new techniques, processes and so on.

Edit a Coaching Session: Adjust your training goals.

Manage Coaching Sessions: View specific information and better understand the session details.

Create a Coaching Session Report: Extract statistical information about the coaching sessions in the Coaching

Session grid.

Manage Coaching Session Types: Classify each session.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Coaching Menu Reference

The following list provides a brief description of each Coaching menu item:

Sessions:

Use to create coaching sessions that will help you train your employees.

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to Supported Deployments.

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Coaching Session Grid

The Coaching Session grid contains a list of all your coaching sessions. The list contains general information about

each coaching session and offers you a wide variety of tools to manage your sessions.

The left side of the Coaching Session grid contains the session list.

Below the Coaching Session list is a calendar that shows when the sessions in your list are scheduled.

The right side of the screen displays details about the session selected in the grid.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

The Coaching Session grid contains the following information:

Status : The session status. Session statuses are indicated by icons in the session list and by

color-coding in the calendar.

Scheduled: The session has been created, but it has not been started.

In Progress: The trainee is currently taking part in the session.

On Hold: The session was paused after the trainee began taking part in it.

Completed: The trainee completed the session.

Schedule Date: The date and time on which the trainee is expected to start the session

Name: The name of the session.

Coach: The coach's user name.

Trainee: The trainee's user name.

Actions: Click one of the following actions:

Adds the session to the Outlook calendar on your local computer.

Re-sends the email notification about the session to the coach and trainee.

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Creates a permalink to the specific session.

Open the Sessions Details screen in setup mode so that you can add content to the session or

modify the session properties and content.

Note: this action is only available to the coaching session creator and the coach. The trainee cannot open

the Session Details in setup mode.

Generates a report containing statistical information about all of the sessions assigned to the trainee

assigned to the session.

Deletes the specific session.

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Create a New Coaching Session

In this page you will learn how to create a new Coaching Session.

To create a new comprehensive coaching session that will produce the best results, it is recommended that the

following be added to the new session:

Interaction lists

Action Items

Links

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To create a new coaching session:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the New Sessions icon .

3. Enter the following information:

Session Name: Indicates the name of the session.

Schedule Date: Select the date and time at which the trainee should take part in the session.

Coach: Select the name of the coach who will oversee this coaching session.

Trainee: Select the name of the user who should take part in this coaching session.

Type: Select the type of coaching session that should be performed.

Reason Code: Select the reason why the coaching session should be performed.

Public/Private: When you add notes in the Notes field, select Public if you want the notes to be visible

to others. Select Private if you do not want anyone but yourself to see the notes.

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Notes: Type anything about the session. Public notes can be used to help the coach or trainee with the

session.

4. Click Save.

The coaching session is created and an invitation is sent to the coach and trainee's My Messages widget. If their

user profiles include an email address, notifications are sent to their email. The notification emails include an iCal

file. When the attachment is opened, the session is automatically added to the user's Outlook calendar.

The new session will now appear in the Coaching Session list. When the session is selected in the Coaching

Session list, its details appear to the right of the list.

To add and manage session interactions lists:

Once a coaching session is created, you need to add an interaction list(s) to the session. The interaction list provides

the trainee with the knowledge required for the training objective.

There are two types of interaction lists. One list is created as a result of an interaction search criteria and another list

can be created manually.

For more information, see Interactions Lists.

Note: Interaction lists can be added in the Session Details screen during the setup mode. Once they are added, the

lists can be modified by adding more interactions and removing existing interactions. Modifications that are made to an

interaction list in the Coaching Session do not affect the original interaction list.

To each coaching session you can:

Add an existing interaction.

Create a new interaction list.

To add an existing interaction list to a session:

When an existing interaction list is added to a coaching session, a copy of the original list is made and attached to the

session. The copy becomes part of the specific coaching session and is not linked to the original interaction list. It can

only be viewed from the coaching session. From within the coaching session you can add or remove interactions from

the list and even change the search criteria. These modifications do not affect the original interaction list or the Saved

Searches.

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Edit icon associated with the coaching session to which you want to add an interaction list.

3. Click the Add interaction list icon next to Interactions.

A list of Interaction Lists and Saved Searches appears.

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Select an interaction list, or a Saved Search, that contains the interaction list you are interested in.

A copy of the interaction list is created and attached to the coaching session. The list appears under the

General Details > Interaction Lists:.

To add a new interaction list to a session:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Edit icon associated with the coaching session to which you want to add an interaction list.

3. Click New Search. The search criteria options appear.

4. Fill in the search criteria and click Search. The search results appear to the right of the form.

5. Select the check box next to each interaction that you want to add to the new interaction list.

6. At the top of the list click Batch Actions > Add to and select Coaching.

7. Select the coaching session to which you are adding the new interaction list.

8. Select New Static List.

9. Enter a name for the list and click OK. The new list name appears under the General Details > Interaction

Lists:.

To add and manage action items:

Adding an action item to a coaching session enables you to ask the trainee to perform a particular task.

Note: When you create an action item from within a coaching session, the action item appears both in the coaching

session and in the general Action Items list. The item can be edited from both locations.

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Edit icon associated with the coaching session to which you want to add an action item.

3. Click the Add Action Item icon in the top corner of the coaching session screen.

4. In the Action Item window, configure the parameters as necessary. For more information, see Action Items.

5. Click Save. The action item is added to the coaching session and appears under the Action Items title.

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To add and manage session links:

A coaching session can contain links to external files, websites and SpeechMiner UI permalinks. For example, if you

want the trainee to learn from content in a website, you can add a link to the specific website. During the coaching

session, when the trainee clicks the link a new window is opened and the link is displayed.

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Edit icon associated with the coaching session to which you want to add a link.

3. Click the Add link icon next to Links under General Details.

4. Type a description of the link in the Description field.

5. Type the link address in the URL field.

6. Click OK. The Add link to session window closes and the link is added under General Details >

Interaction Lists:.

Note: Click the link under the General Details area and a new browser is opened with the contents of the link.

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Participate in a Coaching Session

Once a coaching session is created, the trainee assigned to the session should begin the session on the scheduled date.

Participating in a coaching session involves listening to interactions, reading notes, opening links, and performing action

items attached to the session.

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to Supported Deployments.

To participate in a session:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. In the Coaching Session grid, click the session you want to participate in. The Session Details screen is

opened.

3. Click Accept Session to indicate that you are knowingly starting the selected session.

4. Click Start. The start time is recorded and the status is changed to In Progress.

Note: Only a coach can click Pause to temporarily stop the session.

5. Work through all the actions items and notes. Use the information in the notes to guide you through the session.

6. Listen to the interactions associated with the session and pay close attention to the parts mentioned in the notes.

7. On the left side of the session screen, under General Details, click the name of the interaction list. The

Interaction list is opened on the right side of the screen.

8. Click Play to playback a specific interaction. The Media Player opens below the grid and begins to play the

interaction. For more information, see Media Player.

9. Click End complete the session.

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Edit a Coaching Session

After a session is created and saved, you can edit the session details.

Note: A session can be opened from the Coaching Session grid or from the My Messages widget by clicking the

specific session name.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

Once a session is created you can:

Edit a coaching session's details.

Add and/or remove a session's interaction list.

Add or edit a session note.

Edit a session link.

Delete a session link.

To edit coaching session details:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Edit icon associated with the coaching session whose properties you want to edit.

3. Click the Edit icon to the far right of the General title. The fields become active.

4. Make the necessary changes.

5. Click the Save icon to the far right of the General title. The changes are saved.

To modify the session Interaction list:

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Interactions can be added to an interaction list from any Interaction grid, Event grid and Media Player. You can also

remove interactions from a list.

Note: If the interaction list was copied from a global list, the global list is not affected by the changes you make to the

coaching session interaction list.

To remove an interaction list from a session:

1. Select Coaching > Session.

2. Click the name of the session from which you want to remove an interaction list.

3. Under General Details click the delete icon . The session is deleted.

To add an interaction to an existing session interaction list:

1. Select Explore > Search.

2. Create a search for the interaction(s) you want to add. For additional information, see Create a New Search.

3. Select the interactions you want to add to the interaction list in the session.

4. Click Batch Actions. For additional information, see Batch Actions.

5. Select Add To....

6. Select Interaction List.

7. Select the list to which you want to add the interaction(s).

8. Click Add. The interactions are added to the list. The interaction list is automatically updated for the specific

coaching session.

To add or edit a session note:

Session notes can be added to a coaching session while it is created and after. Notes can be defined as:

Public notes: Generally intended to help trainees understand the purpose of the coaching session and draw

their attention to those aspects of the interactions that need to be highlighted. Public notes are visible to

everyone who accesses the session.

Private notes: Visible only to the person who wrote them. You can use Private notes to add reminders or

comments to yourself. For example, when you create a session, you can leave yourself a note reminding you to

add a link later on.

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1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Edit icon associated with the coaching session to which you want to add a note.

3. At the bottom of the screen click the Add new note icon to the right of the Notes title.

4. In the field that appears write your new note.

5. From the Visibility list select Public or Private.

6. Click Add. The note is added to the coaching session.

Note: You can always open the session's details and edit the contents of the note by clicking the Edit icon

associated with the specific note, or delete the note by clicking the Delete icon .

To edit a session's link:

1. Click Coaching > Session.

2. Click the name of the session whose associated link you want to edit.

3. Click the Edit icon next to the link you want to edit. The Add link to session window opens.

4. Modify the description and/or link as required and click OK. The link is automatically modified.

To delete a link from a session:

1. Click Coaching > Session.

2. Click the name of the session associated with the link you want to delete.

3. Click the Delete icon next to the link you want to delete.

4. Click Yes if you are sure you want to delete the link. The link is deleted from the Links list.

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Working with Coaching Sessions

You can work with the Coaching Session grid to view specific sessions and details about each session.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

From the Coaching Session grid you can:

Filter the Coaching Session grid.

View sessions on a specific date.

View session details.

Export an Interaction List / Saved Search.

To filter the Coaching Session grid:

You can use the following two filters to limit the sessions that are displayed in the list:

General filter:

Enables you to filter the session list according to a specific user and date. You can also select whether or not to include

completed sessions.

The following general filter controls are located at the top of the session list:

User: Select All Sessions to display all the sessions that you have permission to see. Select My Sessions to

include only sessions in which you are either the creator, coach or trainee.

Date Range (From and To): From the Form list, select the beginning of the period to include in the session

list. From the To list, select the end of the period to include in the list.

Completed: Select this check box to include sessions that were completed in the list. Clear the check box to

only include sessions that were not completed.

Column based filter:

Enables you to filter the session according to session status and trainee.

Status column: from the Status column, select the status you want to include in the list. Select All to view

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sessions with any status.

For more information, see Coaching Session Grid

Trainee column: in the Trainee text field type part of the trainee's name or user name to include in the session

list. As you type names and user names, the letters are displayed in a drop down list. Select the trainee from the

list. Only sessions with the selected trainee are displayed in the session list.

To view sessions on a specific date:

The lower left area of Coaching > Session contains a calendar in which you can see when the sessions that appear in

the list are scheduled to take place.

From the calendar you can:

Choose a time period to display by clicking the month, weekly or daily links in the top right corner of the

calendar.

View the previous and next time periods by clicking the previous and next icons.

Open the Session Details screen for a specific session by clicking the session from within the calendar.

To view session details:

To view session details in the Coaching > Session screen, click the specific session row. The session details are

displayed on the right side of the screen.

The session details display includes the following areas:

Session Controls: Includes a link to the Coaching Session grid, status information and session controls.

General Details: Lists the interaction lists, saved searches and links associated with the session.

General Details: Includes the session properties. If the trainee began the session, the session start time, end

time and duration are displayed in this area. If the trainee did not start the session, only the Due Date appears.

Notes: Lists all the public and private notes attached to the specific session.

Interaction Lists: Lists all the interaction lists associated with the session. This list contains how many

interactions in the list have comments and how many interactions are included in the list. For example, (1,3)

indicates that one interaction in the list has comments and the list contains three interactions. If an interaction has

comments, the comments appear below the summary information.

Action Items: Lists all the action items associated with the session.

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Links: Lists all of the links included in the session and indicates whether or not the trainee opened them.

To export an Interaction List / Saved Search from a Coaching Session:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions and click the name of the session from which you want to export an Interaction

List or Saved Search.

2. Under General Details, click the Export icon next to the Interaction List / Saved Search you want to

export.

3. Click Yes if you want to export the audio with the .csv file or No if you want to only export the .csv file.

A zip file is created with the exported Interaction List and/or Saved Search.

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Create a Coaching Session Report

Coaching Session reports provide statistical information about the coaching session. The report breaks down the

sessions by status and indicates how many sessions have not been started, how many are in progress and how many

have been completed. The Coaching Session report also provides information about how long the trainee participated

in the session on average and in total. Additional details about the sessions appear in the lower half of the report. The

details are divided into groups by trainee. For more information about report details, see View Report Details.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

There are two types of Coaching Session reports:

General Report: Includes all coaching sessions that are included in the set defined by the general filters in the

Coaching Session grid. For example, if the filter specifies My Sessions for September 1st through September

30th, and includes Completed sessions, all sessions that meet this criteria are included in the report.

Note: Column filters do not affect the criteria.

To generate a general report:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. In the top right corner (above the Coaching Session grid) click the Run Report icon . The report is

generated and displayed in a new browser window.

User Report: Includes all the sessions that are included in the set defined by the general filters in the Coaching

Session grid for a specific user. If the user is creator, coach or trainee, the session is included in the report.

To generate a user report:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. In the row associated with the user on which you want to base the report, click the Run Report icon

under Actions. A report for all the sessions in which the trainee is either the creator, coach or trainee

is generated and displayed in a new browser window.

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View Report Details

The lower part of a Coaching Session report lists the sessions that were included in the report. From the report, you

can listen to interactions that the trainee listened to during the session, and open the Session Details screen.

The sessions are grouped by trainee and include the following information:

The name of each session.

The name of the coach.

The date on which the session was scheduled.

The date on which its status was last changed.

The session status.

Whether or not the session was started or completed.

The amount of time the trainee spent on the session.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To view additional details about a session:

1. From within the report, click the beside the session name.

Notes and resources (links) included in the session are displayed below the session name, as well as links to all

the interactions that the trainee listened to during the session.

To play an interaction that appears in the expanded list:

1. From within the report, click the interaction link.

The Media Player opens in the window and plays the interaction.

Note: To return to the report, press Backspace.

To open a session in the Session Details screen:

1. From within the report, click the name of the session.

The Session Details screen opens in a new browser window.

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Manage Session Types and Reason Codes

Every coaching session can be assigned a session type, a session sub-type and a reason code.

A session type can help you identify the purpose of a session and the type of trainee intended for the session. We

recommend that the session type name represent a specific intent and objective since the name represents the scope of

the session (for example, training, testing, and so on).

A session sub-type can help you specify a secondary or subordinate session type that falls under the general

classification of a specific session type.

A reason code can help you identify the cause, explanation, or justification for completing a coaching session. A

reason code provides you with the opportunity to specify why the coaching session was completed.

You can add additional session types and reason codes as appropriate for your organization. For more information

about assigning a session type and reason code, see Create a New Coaching Session.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

When working with session types, session subtypes and reason codes you can:

Create a new session type.

Activate / Deactivate a session type.

Modify the name of a session type.

Create a new session subtype.

Activate / deactivate a session subtype.

Modify the name of a session subtype.

Create a new reason code.

Activate / Deactivate a reason code.

Modify the name of a reason code.

Note: Once a session type, subtype and reason code are saved, you cannot delete them. You can only modify the

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name and deactivate it so that it is not available. The General session type cannot be deactivated.

To create a new session type:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Configure button and select the Session Types tab.

3. In the New Type field, type the name of the new session type.

4. Click Add. The session type is added to the list and its status is set to Active.

5. Click Save. The new session type is included in the list of available session types.

To activate or deactivate a session type:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Configure button and select the Session Types tab.

3. Under Active, select the check box next to a session type to activate it. Clear the check box next to a session

type to deactivate it.

4. Click Save. The change is implemented.

To modify the session type name:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Configure button and select the Session Types tab.

3. Modify the name as necessary.

4. Click Save. The change is implemented.

To create a new session subtype:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Configure button and select the Session Types tab.

3. Click Add Subtype next to the session type to which you want to add a subtype.

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4. In the Subtype field, type the name of the new subtype.

5. Click Add. The subtype is added to the list and its status is set to Active.

6. Click Save. The new subtype is included in the list of available session subtypes.

To activate or deactivate a session subtype:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Configure button and select the Session Types tab.

3. Select the check box next to the subtype that should be active and clear the check box next to the subtype that

should be deactivated.

4. Click Save. The change is implemented.

To modify the session subtype name:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Configure button and select the Session Types tab.

3. Modify the name as necessary.

4. Click Save. The change is implemented.

To create a new reason code:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Configure button and select the Reason Codes tab.

3. In the New Code field, type the name of the new reason code.

4. Click Add. The new reason code is added to the list and its status is set to Active.

5. Click Save. The new reason code is included in the list of available reason codes.

To activate or deactivate a reason code:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

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2. Click the Configure button and select the Reason Codes tab.

3. Under Active, select the check box next to a session type to activate it. Clear the check box next to a session

type to deactivate it.

4. Click Save. The change is implemented.

To modify the reason code name:

1. Select Coaching > Sessions.

2. Click the Configure button and select the Reason Codes tab.

3. Modify the name as necessary.

4. Click Save. The change is implemented.

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Tools

SpeechMiner UI Tools provide access to an array of global SpeechMiner UI functions and management features.

For a list of functions and management features refer to:

System Admin

Export Completed QM Sessions

Define Tags

Depending on your permissions, and on your system's mode of operation, you may be able to use these features to:

Manage user accounts and permissions, categories and Preset Views.

Monitor and manage the system and its servers.

View information about the definitions of Topics, Programs, and Categories that are defined in the system and

used by SpeechMiner UI to analyze interactions.

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Tools Menu Reference

The following list provides a brief description of each Tools menu item:

System Admin:

Enables you to monitor and manage the system and its servers as well as some of its global features (for example,

Preset Views and Monitor System).

Export Completed QM Sessions

Enables you to enables you to perform a batch export of QM session data associated with sessions that were

completed during a specific date range.

Define Tags

Enables you to create tags that can be used to establish a connection between a specific interaction and a specific

topic.

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System Admin
 
System Administration tools enable you to monitor and manage the system and its servers, as well as some of its
global features (for example, Preset Views, Monitor System and so on).
 
Note: Some of the options described in this section are not available in Recording Only or Analytics and Recording
modes.
 
System Administration tools include:
Preset View:  Views designed by administrators and managers and assigned to the View page of a specific
user(s).
Monitor System:  Used to monitor the status of SpeechMiner UI modules, start / stop system machines
and view system messages.
Manage Interaction Queue:  Used to control the order in which interactions are processed by SpeechMiner UI.
 
Purge System:  Used to safely remove old interactions from the system to reduce the database size and
generate better performance overall.
Manage Cache:  Used to reset the cache for all or specific interface elements such as agents, saved reports,
users and groups and so on.
Interactions Admin:  Used to manage audit tasks, reprocess interactions and clean the database of information
about terms that were removed from topics.   
 
System Configuration:  Used to review system configuration and security information to enable you to better
understand the environment you are working in.
 
Alerts:  Used to send email alerts to specific people when groups of interactions have certain characteristics.
 
Metadata Manager:  Used to change the names of metadata filter options and metadata columns in the search
results so that the names clearly represent the meaning of the data.
 
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Preset View

Preset Views are views designed by administrators and managers and assigned to the View page of one or more

specific users.

The Preset View enables you to create a view that generates information that you think is essential for the user to see.

Note: A View is a set of widgets that displays summary information about a specific set on interactions. For more

information, see Dashboard.

With the Preset View tool you can:

Create a new Preset View.

Publish a Preset View.

Edit a Preset View.

Edit the Preset View layout.

Delete a Preset View.

Move a Preset View.

To create a new Preset View:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Preset Views.

2. Click the New icon .

3. In the Name field, type the name of the Preset View.

Note: Although you can add Permissions now, it is recommended that you design the view (add widgets and

set the layout) before adding the roles.

4. Click Save. A Dashboard > View tab (with the name you gave) is opened.

5. Use the Add Widgets and Change Settings option to create the view as necessary. For more information,

see Dashboard.

6. Click Back to Preset Views, once you are finished designing the Preset View. The Preset View grid is

displayed.

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7. Click the Edit icon under the Permissions column to set the Preset View permissions. The Edit Preset

View window opens.

8. Configure permissions for the Preset View:

a. From the Role Name column select a user role from the list provided. For more information, see

Administer Roles.

b. Click Add. A permission row is added for the selected user role. Check boxes appear in the row for

each type of permission.

c. Select the check box associated with the permission you want to grant the users associated with the

selected user role.

9. Repeat step 8 for each role to which you want to publish this Preset View.

10. Click Publish Preset View to publish the Preset View. For additional information, see Publish Preset View.

To publish a Preset View:

After you create a new Preset View or modify an existing Preset View, you must publish the view for it to appear in

the intended user's Dashboard > View.

Published Preset Views appear for users who have the user role permissions set for the specific Preset View

Note: When you publish a Preset View that was already published, the new version overrides the existing version. In

addition, when you republish a Preset View, all its local changes (made by individual users) are removed. The new

version replaces the existing Preset View.

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Preset Views.

2. Select the check box associated with the Preset View you want to publish.

3. Click the Reset icon . You are prompted to confirm if you want this version of each selected Preset View to

override any previous version of the same view.

4. Click Yes. The Preset View is published to the View page associated with all the users with the roles selected

for the specific Preset View.

To edit a Preset View:

You can edit the name, description and permissions of any Preset View that you created.

The changes are implemented as soon as you save them.

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Note: You do not have to republish the Preset View after you change its settings.

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Preset Views.

2. Click the name of the Preset View you want to edit.

3. Modify the name, description and/or permissions as required.

4. Click Save. The changes are saved and published to the user's Dashboard > View page.

If you removed a user role from the Permissions grid, the view is removed from the View page associated with

the user who has the removed role.

To edit a Preset View layout:

You can modify the layout and widget set of any Preset View you created.

Note: After you modify a Preset View layout, you must publish the view again to implement the changes on the users'

Dashboard > View pages. In addition, when you republish a Preset View all it's local changes (made by individual

users) are removed. The new version replaces the existing Preset View.

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Preset Views.

2. Click the Layout icon associated with the Preset View you want to modify. The specific Preset View is

displayed.

3. Modify the layout and widget selection as required. For more information, see Working with Dashboard Views.

4. Click Back to Preset Views when you finish changing the layout.

5. Click Publish the Preset View.

To delete a Preset View:

When you delete a Preset View it is deleted from all the Dashboard > View pages in which it currently appears.

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Preset Views.

2. Select the check box associated with the Preset View you want to delete.

3. Click the Delete icon . You are prompted to confirm that you want to delete the selected Preset View.

4. Click Yes. The Preset View is deleted.

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To move a Preset View:

1. Select Dashboard and click the name of the Preset View you want to move.

2. Place your mouse over the top corner of the view you want to move. The mouse pointer changes to a plus.

3. Drag the view to its new location and release the mouse button. The view is moved to its new location among

other views and dashboards.

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Monitor System

With the Monitor System tool you monitor the status of SpeechMiner UI modules, start / stop system machines

and view system messages.

With the Monitor System tool you can:

Monitor module status.

View system messages.

Note: The system can be configured to send reports about errors via email to specified recipients whenever errors

occur. For additional information, see Alerts.

To monitor module status:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Monitor System.

2. Review the following status information:

Status Description

All Interactions Indicates the number of interactions currently in the SpeechMiner UI database.

Not Processed:

Indicates the number of interactions waiting to be processed. This is the number of interactions that

have been added to the system by the fetcher, but have not gone through recognition.

Last Interaction Time:

Indicates the last time an interaction was added to the system.

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Statistics

Log Errors: The number of errors that have not been handled.

In Process: The number of interactions currently being processed.

Waiting for Categorization: The number of interactions waiting to be processed, plus

interactions that completed processing but are awaiting categorization.

Waiting for Indexing:

The number of interactions that have not been indexed and therefore will

not appear in the Search Results grid.

Note:

Waiting for Indexing grows exponentially when re-indexing occurs. But, the number quickly

goes down. This does not affect new interactions. Re-indexing occurs when:

- Agent hierarchy changes.

- SMART Topic or Category changes.

- Assigning a Manual Category.

- Playing a single interaction.

- Adding a comment to a single interaction.

Log Warnings: The number of warnings that have not been handled.

Total Processed (24H):

The number of interactions that were processed in the last 24 hours. This

is a good indicator of how well the processing system is functioning.

Total Categorized (24H):

The number of interactions that were categorized in the last 24 hours.

This is a good indicator of how well the categorization system is functioning.

Total Indexed (24H):

The number of interactions that were indexed in the last 24 hours. This is a

good indicator of how well the indexing system is functioning.

Queue table

SpeechMiner UI: The number of interactions that were fetched but were not processed.

Input Folders: The number of interactions that need to be fetched.

Recording System:

The number of interactions in the recording system that have not been

fetched.

Total:

The total of all interactions in all folders that need to be either fetched or processed.

Start / Stop System

Enables you to start or stop some or all of the machines in the system.

In the left panel, select the machine you want to stop/start.

Note:

Stopping the system does not turn off the UPlatform.exe service. To do that, you must run

the SMConfig tool.

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Sites

Sites: Indicates the status of all sites.

Folders:

Indicates the status of the Input, Filter and Store folders. If available space is low, a

warning or error is generated.

Computers: Indicates the status of the various computers.

Note: The red and white x indicates the machine was stopped.

Messages Displays system messages for specific machines.

Note: When there are Log Errors the administrator can investigate using the information in the Monitor System

window as well as by running the Monitor System report or by using the ULogger utility directly on a server.

To view system messages:

You can view system messages, as well as additional system-status information by running the Monitor System report.

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Monitor System.

2. Set the filters at the bottom of the screen under the Messages title.

3. Click Show. The messages are displayed below the filters.

4. Place your mouse on the message text to see the full message.

5. Click Mark as Read once you have viewed the message.

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Manage Interaction Queue

The Manage Interaction Queue tool enables you to control the order in which interactions are processed by

SpeechMiner UI.

With the options provided in the Manage Interaction Queue tool, you can also change the priority of future interactions

in the queue for a specific program.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To change the interaction processing order:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Manage Interaction Queue.

2. From the Process order list select one of the following:

Older interactions first: Indicates that the older interactions will be processed first.

Newer interactions first: Indicates that the latest (new) interactions will be processed first.

The Manage Interaction Queue list is updated automatically.

3. From the Program table, select the Edit link associated with the program whose priority you want to change in

the queue.

4. Select a priority and click OK.

Note: The Interactions in Queue column indicate the amount of interactions associated with the specific

program that are awaiting processing.

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Purge System

Safely removing old interactions from the system will reduce the database size and will result in better performance

overall.

You can select to delete all the interactions in the database or you can select to delete a specific group of interactions.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To purge interactions from the system:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Purge System.

2. Select the type of interactions you want to purge (calls, email, chat, text and social interactions).

3. Select one of the following:

Delete all interactions in the system: Enables you to select all the interactions in the database.

Delete selected interactions: Enables you to purge interactions associated with a specific date range

and program.

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Select the date range to purge only the interactions created within the selected range.

Select one or more programs from the list provided to purge only those interactions associated

with the selected program(s).

4. Click Delete. The interactions are purged.

Note: To set up an automatic purging job, contact Genesys Support.

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Manage Cache

SpeechMiner UI enables you to reset the cache for all or specific interface elements such as agents, saved reports,

users and groups and so on.

The contents of the SpeechMiner UI cache are automatically reset at a configured time interval. Also, the cache is

reset when SMART changes are applied to SpeechMiner UI.

When you manage the cache, you can also reset the cache manually. For example, you may wish to manually reset the

cache when a new agent begins working, so that the agent's name will appear in the system.

To reset the cache:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Manage Cache.

2. In the drop-down list provided select one of the following:

3. Click Reset.

All: Reset the cache for all of the SpeechMiner UI contents.

Info data (Programs, Topics, Scripts, Categories): Reset the cache with current Info data

definitions.

Users and Groups: Reset the cache with updated user and group information.

Agents: Reset the cache with updated agent details.

Searches: Reset the cache with updated saved search definitions.

Metadata fields: Reset the cache with updated metadata fields.

Items on Report: Reset the cache with the current report templates and report template definitions.

Saved reports: Reset the cache with the current saved report definitions.

The cache for the selected element is reset and a confirmation message appears.

4. Click OK.

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Interactions Admin

With SpeechMiner UI you can manage audit tasks, clean the database of information about terms that were removed

from topics and reprocess interactions.

Audits are usually performed when a topic is created (see Accuracy Rates (auditing)). When a topic changes or no

longer exists, the audit is no longer relevant. For this reason, it is important to periodically delete or clear orphaned

audits.

With the Interactions Admin tool you can:

Delete audits

Reprocess interactions

Clear orphaned audits

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To delete audits:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Interactions Admin.

2. Select the Delete Audits tab.

3. From the list provided select the audits you want to delete and click Done.

4. Click Delete.

To reprocess interactions:

Reprocessing interactions enables you to run event analysis on all interactions or specified topics or programs.

Note: Reprocessing interactions is not available in a Recording Only environment and in a Analytics and Recording

environment.

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Interactions Admin.

2. Select the Reprocess Interactions tab.

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3. Select the types of interactions you want to reprocess.

4. Select one of the following reprocessing options:

All: Reprocesses all interactions.

Topics: Reprocesses interactions associated with the selected topics.

Programs: Reprocesses interactions associated with the selected programs.

5. If you selected Topics or Programs, open the list associated with your selection.

6. From the multi-select list, select all items you want to reprocess. For additional information, see Search Filter.

7. From the list provided, select the date range associated with the items you want to reprocess.

8. Click Reprocess. The interactions are reprocessed.

To clear orphaned audits (that is, remove deleted terms from term lists):

If you delete terms from topics during the auditing and fine-tuning process, you should also remove them from the term

lists that are tracked in reports and in the Interaction and Event grids.

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Interactions Admin.

2. Select the Clean Orphaned Audits tab.

3. Click Clean. All the deleted terms are removed from the term lists.

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System Configuration

With SpeechMiner UI, you can review system configuration and security information that enables you to better

understand the environment you are working in.

Although the configuration information is intended for view purposes only, some of the security settings can be

changed.

With the System Configuration tool you can:

View system information.

Manage security settings.

Manage PCI settings.

Monitor the security log.

To view system information:

You can review a summary of information about the different system components.

1. Select Tools > System Admin > System Configuration.

2. The Default tab is displayed.

3. Review the system configuration information.

To manage security settings:

SpeechMiner UI complies with the security standards defined in the PCI-DSS standard (Payment Card Industry Data

Security Standard). These standards are designed to prevent confidential information from being accessed by

unauthorized individuals. For example, one purpose of SpeechMiner UI security settings is to prevent unauthorized

people from hearing interactions that are stored in the database.

Note: The information in this section is intended to explain how to work with the Security Center interface. It includes

a general overview to the subject of PCI implementation in SpeechMiner UI.

Following these guidelines does not ensure that your entire system is PCI-DSS compliant, or guarantee the

confidentiality of your data. It is your company's responsibility to work with your IT department to ensure that your

hardware and network systems are secure from internal as well as external intrusions. Genesys Telecommunications

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Laboratories makes no claims about the security of your network or the extent to which it is PCI-DSS compliant.

Some of the options that must be implemented in SpeechMiner UI in order for it to conform to the PCI-DSS standard

are:

Interaction export is disabled for all users.

Numbers are filtered out of all interaction playback.

All audio files are encrypted.

The password for encrypting audio files has been changed from its default value.

The password for the default user account (Administrator) has been changed from its default value.

Access to the SpeechMiner UI browser-based interface is available using Windows, Genesys or SpeechMiner

UI authentication.

Access to the system is blocked after ten consecutive attempts to log in with an invalid password.

Permissions are set properly for all users and components of the system.

All web services use a secure API, and can only be accessed using a token that is supplied by the system upon

user login.

Secure SSL connections are used for all connections to and between servers in the system.

The SSL certificate is valid and includes all the domains used by the site.

All user events are logged.

Tracing is disabled on all web servers in the system.

Note: Some of the recommendations listed above are not relevant to a Recording only mode, because they relate to

features that are not supported in that mode.

The settings that must be configured in order to implement these options are defined in various locations in the system,

including SMConfig (the SpeechMiner UI configuration tool), the SpeechMiner UI UI interface, and the configuration

files of specific system features. In some cases, more than one setting must be configured in order for a requirement to

be met. For example, SSL connection requirements must be configured separately for different servers in the system.

The Security Center lists all of the PCI-related settings in your system and, whenever possible, automatically checks

the system to see if they conform to the standard. In some cases, the system can correct an issue for you by changing

the relevant settings; in other cases, you must manually correct the settings. You can also choose not to implement

some or all of the PCI requirements and you can manually change the settings as you see fit.

The Security Center also contains a log of all security-related actions that were performed in the system. The log lists

configuration changes and failed login attempts. This information can be used to monitor the system for security

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breaches.

To open the security center:

The Security Center is accessed from the System Configuration screen. The upper part of the tab contains PCI-

compliance information. The lower part contains a log of security-related user actions. Both tables can be sorted by

any of the columns they contain.

1. In the System Configuration screen, click the Security Center tab.

To manage PCI settings:

The PCI-DSS recommended configuration section contains a table that lists all of the PCI related settings. The table

contains the following columns:

Setting: The name of the setting.

Explanation: A description of what conditions must be met in order for the setting to conform to the standard.

Note: If the system cannot check whether the setting meets the conditions, "Make sure that ..." appears at the

beginning of the explanation.

Action: Indicates the current setting status and/or the type of action required to correct it.

Fixed: Indicates that the setting conforms to the PCI requirements.

Fix: Indicates that the setting does not conform, but the system can correct it.

Manual: Indicates that either the setting does not conform or the system cannot check whether the setting

conforms.

To correct a setting that can be fixed automatically:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > System Configuration.

2. Select the Security Center tab.

3. Under the Action column, click Fix. You are prompted to confirm that you want to change the setting.

4. Click Yes. The system corrects the setting and changes its Action status to Fixed.

To manually correct a setting:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > System Configuration.

2. Select the Security Center tab.

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3. Follow the instructions under the Explanation column to manually correct the problem.

To correct all the settings that can be fixed automatically:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > System Configuration.

2. Select the Security Center tab.

3. Click Reset. You are prompted to confirm that you want to change the settings.

4. Cick Yes. The system corrects the settings and changes their Action status to Fixed.

Note: Settings that require a manual correction are not changed when Reset is selected.

To monitor the security log:

The lower table in the Security Center tab lists system configuration changes and failed logins that occurred during a

specific time period.

Note: System configuration changes are changes that are implemented using SMConfig (the SpeechMiner UI system

configuration tool).

1. Select Tools > System Admin > System Configuration. and select the Security Center tab.

2. Select what should be displayed in the table as follows:

Last: Enter the number of hours or days (prior to the current time) to include in the table.

Time Unit: Select hours or days.

Failed Login: Select to include failed logins in the list.

Configuration Change: Select to include configuration changes in the list.

3. Click Refresh. The table is updated to match the options you selected.

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Alerts

SpeechMiner UI can be configured to send email alerts to specific people when groups of interactions have certain

characteristics. For example, you can check for changes in the number of interactions containing agitation within an

interaction or how many interactions each agent handled per week.

The following types of alerts are available:

Change Alert: Indicates when the number of interactions that meet a certain condition has changed significantly

from one time period to the next. For example, you could define a Change Alert to notify you when the number

of interactions dealing with a particular topic is more than ten percent higher then it was the previous week.

Threshold Alert: Indicates when a significant number of interactions meet a certain condition. For example,

you could define a Threshold Alert to notify you when the number of interactions handled by an agent falls

below 1000 in a given week.

Trend Alert: Indicates the occurrence of significant changes over time in the numbers of interactions that meet

a certain condition. For example, you could define a Trend Alert to notify you when the number of interactions

dealing with new accounts decreases significantly for four weeks straight.

On Event Alert: Indicates when a particular type of event takes place in a specific number of interactions. For

example, you could define an On Event Alert to notify you when your competitors are mentioned in more than

ten interactions.

Change, Threshold, and Trend alerts are generated by the system once a day. That is, at a set time every day, the

system checks the preceding day's data to see which of the alert conditions were met, and sends notifications for those

alerts that were generated. On Event Alerts are generated whenever their conditions are met. The same On Event alert

can be generated multiple times in the same day, if the conditions are met multiple times.

With the Alerts tool you can:

Create a new alert.

Edit an alert.

Delete an alert.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To create a new alert:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Alerts.

2. Click New below the list of existing alerts. The Alert Type dialog box opens.

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3. Select the type of alert you want to create.

4. Click Next. The alert parameters window is opened.

Note: The fields vary slightly depending on the alert you are creating.

5. In the Alert Name field type the name of the alert.

6. Under Trigger the alert if, select the interaction property conditions as follows:

Agent: Enables you to limit the alert to interaction that were handled by particular work groups or

agents, open the Agent list and add the work groups and/or agents to the list of selected agents. Note:

This field is not available for Threshold Alerts.

Categories / Topics: Enables you to limit the alert to interactions that belong to specific categories or

topics. For additional information, see Search Filter.

7. Fill in the fields according to the type of alert you decided to create:

Change Alert:

Change Value: Enter the percentage of interactions or the number of interactions that should

activate the alert. For example, if you want the alerts to be sent out when the number of

interactions that match the conditions during the current time period is 20% lower this week than it

was last week, enter 20. Alternatively, if you want the alerts to be sent out if the number of

interactions matching the conditions during the current time period is lower by 100 this week than

it was last week, enter 100.

Interactions / %: Select interaction if the Change Value is a number of interactions and select

percentage if the change is in percentage.

Time Period: Enables you to select the quantity of days, weeks, or months to include in each time

period. For example, if the time period is two weeks, enter 2. In the second field select the type of

time period: day(s), week(s) or month(s).

Threshold Alert:

Threshold Position: In the first field, select Above if the threshold you want to define is above a

specified value, or Below if it is below a specified value. For example, if you want the alerts to be

sent out if the percentage of interactions matching the conditions during the current time period is

greater than 20%, select Above. Similarly, if you want the alerts to be sent out if the number of

interactions matching the conditions during the current time period is greater than 100, select

Above. In the second field, enter the threshold value (e.g., 20 for 20% or 100 for 100

interactions).

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Interactions / %: If the Threshold Position is a number of interactions, select interactions. If it is

a percent change, select percentage.

Time Period: In the first field, enter the quantity of days, weeks, or months to include in the

current time period. For example, if the time period is two weeks, enter 2. In the second field,

select the type of time period: day(s), week(s), or month(s).

Trend Alert:

Trend Direction: Select Up if you want the alerts to be sent out when an upward trend is

identified, or Down if you want to find decreasing trends. For example, if you want to be notified

of an increasing number of interactions involving agitated interactioners, select Up. Alternatively, if

you want to be notified when there is an apparent decrease in interactions about a particular

Topic, select Down.

Time Period: Enter the quantity of days, weeks, or months to include in the trend test. For

example, if you want to test for monthly trends over the past six-months, enter 6.

Consecutive: Select the type of time period: day(s), week(s), or month(s). For example, if you

want to see trends over the past six months, comparing month to month, select month(s).

On Event Alert:

Send alert when: Enter the number of interactions in which the event must occur before an alert

is sent.

8. Under When triggered, send an email to, specify the recipients of the alert by selecting any combination or

roles and groups, and adding individual users and email addresses as follows:

Roles: Select the roles that should receive the email alerts. For example, if you select Administrator and Power

User, any user with either of these roles will receive the alert.

Groups: Select the groups that should receive the email alerts. Any user who belongs to one or more of the

selected groups will receive the alert.

Type email or User name: Enter the email address or user name of the person who should receive the email

alerts. As you type, the system automatically displays a list of all user names that contain the entire sequence of

characters you have typed thus far. If the user name you want to add appears in the list, select it and it is

automatically entered into the field. When the email address or user name appears in its entirety in the field, click

Add to add it to the list of recipients. The email address or user name is added to the list of recipients that

appears below the field.

9. Click Save. The alert is created and is added to the list of alerts. When groups of interactions matching the

conditions you set are identified by the system, email alerts are sent to the recipients you specified.

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To edit an alert:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Alerts.

2. Click the name of the alert you want to edit. The specific alert properties window opens.

3. Configure the alert settings as necessary.

4. Click Save.

To delete an alert:

1. Select Tools > System Admin > Alerts.

2. Select the check box associated with the alert you want to delete.

3. Click Yes. The specific alert is deleted.

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System Alerts

A monitoring process runs on every platform computer in the system. The current state of the platform computers in

the system is displayed in the Monitor System page. The system can be configured to send out e-mail notification

messages to specified recipients whenever a monitoring process discovers an error, such as a full disk on one of the

monitored computers. Whenever a new error is discovered, a notification is sent. The notification lists all errors that

are detected in the system at the time it is sent (even if notifications about them have already been sent).

Note: New notifications are sent out only when new errors are discovered. Even if an error has remained uncorrected

for a long period of time, no new notifications are sent out about it unless additional errors are detected.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To configure System Alert notifications:

1. Select Reports > Saved Reports.

2. In the Saved Reports tab, locate the System alert report and click Schedule .

Note: Only the Recipients tab is displayed. The Schedule tab is not available for this report since it is

configured automatically.

3. Fill in the fields as follows:

To: The email address of the report recipients.

Note: Separate multiple addresses with semi-colons;

From: The email address of the sender.

Subject: The text that should appear in the subject line of the email.

Report Format: Select Web archive to format the results as an MHT file (can be opened in Internet

Explorer). Select PDF to format the results as a PDF file.

Priority: Select the desired priority level for the email message.

4. Click Schedule. The recipients of system alerts are sent as specified.

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Metadata Manager

Occasionally, the terminology used for search result column names and metadata filter options is not a clear

representation of the significance of the metadata (sometimes referred to as Key Value Pair). With Metadata

Manager you can change the names of metadata filter options and metadata columns in the search results so that the

names clearly represent the meaning of the data.

Note: To change the names you must have Metadata Manager permissions. In addition, the change occurs for all

SpeechMiner UI users.

To change a search result column and filter option name:

1. Select Tools > System Admin.

2. Select Metadata Manager. A predefined list of metadata names appears.

3. In the UI Term field, type the name that will appear in the SpeechMiner UI application; for the Metadata

Key's name you want to change.

4. Click Save. To undo your changes, click Reset.

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Export Completed QM Sessions

The Export Completed QM Sessions tool enables you to perform a batch export of QM session data (for up to 10

selected evaluations), associated with sessions that were completed during a specific date range.

The completed QM sessions data is exported in a .zip file that contains a .csv file.

To export completed QM sessions:

1. Click Tools > Export Completed QM Sessions.

2. From the Date Range list select the date range in which the QM sessions were completed.

3. Select an Evaluation Type:

Regular Evaluations: Regular evaluation sessions are made up of Distributed, Shared and Calibration

Evaluation sessions. For details see Create an Evaluation.

Note: If you select Regular Evaluations, you must select the evaluations you want to export (up to 10), from the

list provided.

Adhoc Evaluations: Ad-Hoc evaluation sessions are created for a specific interaction or segment currently

being played in the Media Player. For details see Create an Ad-Hoc Evaluation Session.

4. Click Export. The following question appears:

Do you want to add a score to the exported evaluation session?

Note: The completed QM sessions are exported in an evaluation Sessions_<username>_<time>.zip file

that contains a evaluation Sessions_<username>_<time>.csv file. Each row in the .csv file represents one

evaluation session.

The exported file contains the fields listed under Exported Fields in the Export Completed QM Sessions

page.

5. Click Yes to add a score to the exported QM sessions or click No to not include the scores. The Export

Completed QM Sessions dialog box appears.

Note: If your system is configured to encrypt exported interactions, an Export Completed QM Sessions

window appears. In this window, you will be instructed to create a password required when you attempt to

unzip the exported interactions. If your system is not configured to encrypt exported interactions, the remaining

steps in this procedure are not required. Simply click Ok, to complete the process.

6. Enter a password of your choice in the Create Password field.

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Click Generate Password to enable the system to generate a password for you in the Create Password field.

7. Click Export to export the completed QM sessions.

8. Copy and save the password that appears and click Done.

When you try to unzip the file, you will be prompted for this password.

Note: The Windows default zip program does not support encrypted zip files. To unzip the file, you must use a

different zip program.

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Define Tags

With SpeechMiner UI you can mark an interaction with a tag to better focus your searches, protect an interaction from

deletion and indicate that an interaction was evaluated as part of a Quality Management evaluation session. That is, a

tag labels an interaction as a result of a specific action (Cannot Delete or Evaluated) or a user defined category.

The Define Tags tool enables you to create and delete interaction tags.

To define a tag:

1. Click Tools > Define Tags.

2. Click Add a new tag.

3. Enter the tag name in the field provided and click the check-mark button. The new tag is added to the tags list

and will now appear as an option in More > Tag.

Note: If you decide to delete a tag that is associated with an interaction, the tag will no longer be associated with the

specific interaction and it will no longer appear as part of the interaction's details.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

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Action Items

Action Items enable you to manage SpeechMiner UI tasks.

To view your Action Items click the Action Items link in the upper right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen.

The Action Items link contains round brackets. The number within those brackets indicates the amount of Action

Items assigned to you.

A black Action Item link indicates that no items are assigned to you.

A green Action Item link indicates that the list contains items assigned to you.

A bold green Action Item link indicates that new items have not been read or the status of an existing Action

Item has been changed.

With Action Items you can:

Create an Action Item: Used to indicate and specify to a user what should be done.

Edit an Action Item: Used to modify the content and purpose of an action item.

Change the Action Item Status: Used to indicate if the action item has been completed, and whether or not it

was either rejected or accepted.

For example, a supervisor can create an Action Item that asks one of his staff members to create a series of Coaching

sessions. The staff member will see that a new task has been assigned to him when he logs in to SpeechMiner UI.

With Action Item's the staff member can add notes as he progresses with the task and his supervisor can monitor his

progress.

Note: The summary in an Evaluator Message action item is also a link to the Evaluation Session associated with the

action item. If you received this action item type, read the Summary instructions and click the link to the associated

evaluation session, to better understand the action item before you perform and complete it.

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Create an Action Item

An Action Item can be modified by both the creator and the user it is assigned to.

Note: When you add an Action Item to a Coaching session the Action Items appears in the Action Item list. For

additional information, see: Coaching.

To create an Action Item:

1. In the top right corner of your SpeechMiner UI screen, click Action Items.

2. Click New Item.

3. Configure the following Action Item parameters:

Assignee: The user to whom the Action Item will be assigned.

Type: The Action Item subject

Due Date: The date on which the Action Item must be completed.

Summary: a detailed description of what the user must do.

4. Click OK. The Action Item is created and appears in the My Items list.

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Edit an Action Item

When you edit an Action Item you can add a note(s). Notes are used to clarify, describe and point out thoughts and

decisions about the Action Item.

Note: You can view an Action Item's details from the Action Item list. To do so, simply click the Details link.

To edit an Action Item:

1. In the top right corner of your SpeechMiner UI screen, click Action Items.

2. Click Edit.

3. Modify the parameter settings as required.

Note: When you edit an Action Item the Edit Action Item window contains an area for notes.

4. Under Notes add your thoughts (for example, decisions made, limitations, ideas, and so on).

5. Click OK.

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Change the Action Item Status

When an action item is completed, change its status to Completed.

Once the status is changed to Completed, the user who created the action item must either Confirm or Reject the

change.

When it is confirmed that the action item has been completed, the action item will no longer appear in the Action Item

list.

When the Completed status is rejected, the action item remains in the Action Item list and the option to Complete

becomes available again.

When you finish the tasks associated with an Action Item you can:

Select to Complete the Action Item.

Confirm that the Action Item has been completed.

Reject that the Action Item has been completed.

To complete an Action Item:

1. In the top right corner of your SpeechMiner UI screen click Action Items.

2. Under Actions, click the Complete link associated with the Action Item that has been completed.

3. In the Complete Action Item window, add a note that describes why the Action Item is complete.

4. Click OK.

Note: If you add a note in the Note field, the action item will be sent back to the evaluator for review.

To confirm that an Action Item has been completed:

1. In the top right corner of your SpeechMiner UI screen click Action Items.

2. Under Actions, click the Confirm link to approve the Complete status.

3. In the Confirm Action Item window, add a note that describes why you agreed to the complete status.

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4. Click OK.

To reject the decision to complete an Action Item:

1. In the top right corner of your SpeechMiner UI screen click Action Items.

2. Under Actions, click the Reject link to dismiss the Complete status.

3. In the Reject Action Item window add a note that describes why you disagree with the complete status.

4. Click OK.

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Profile Permissions
This section explains how an administrator can manage users in the SpeechMiner UI user-management system.
DISCLAIMER: The configuration of Profile Permissions is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on
Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.
Before you begin consider the following:
If users in your system log in to SpeechMiner UI with Genesys user accounts, the operations described here are
performed for their accounts in the Genesys Administrator Extension (GAX).
All users in the SpeechMiner UI system are associated with groupings of various types. These groupings control which
interaction and system data the user can see and which permissions the user has to see and activate system features. 
Individual users can have multiple roles and belong to multiple work groups, partitions, and groups. User profiles
specify the roles, groups, and partitions associated with each user.
Depending on your role, you may be able to modify some or all elements of your own profile. You may also be able to
manage other user accounts: creating new users, managing their profiles, managing groups, roles, and permissions. This
section explains how to manage user accounts if you have the required permissions.
In this section, you will learn how to work with the following SpeechMiner UI tools:
Edit User Profile:  Use to view and edit your profile details.
Administer Users: Use to manage users. For example, create new users, assign roles, groups and partitions to
users, and so on.
Administer Groups:  Use to create and manage user groups.
Administer Roles:  Use to set permissions for different types of users.
The following is a list of the SpeechMiner UI user groupings: 
User Groups Description
Role 
A set of permissions that define what features the user can access and use in the SpeechMiner
UI system. 
Work group      The call center, or the call center department, to which the user belongs.
Group
A set of work groups and/or partitions that identify the interaction data to which the user has
access.
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Edit a User Profile

Depending on your permissions, you may be able to view your user profile and edit some or all of its properties.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

Your user profile includes your:

Username

Password

Roles

Work groups you belong to.

Partitions

Personal information (name, phone number, email address).

To edit your user profile:

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Select Edit Profile.

3. Modify the settings and information as necessary. For more information, see Administer Users.

4. Click Save Changes. The changes are saved.

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Administer Users

Managing users includes creating new user accounts, assigning roles, groups, and partitions to users, managing user

passwords, maintaining additional user information, and deactivating or deleting existing accounts. This collection of

information and group associations are assigned to a user and are referred to as a user profile.

The following procedures detail how to create user accounts and manage user profiles:

Create a new user account.

Filter the existing user accounts.

Modify a users profile.

Delete users.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To create a new user account:

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Click the New icon . A blank Add Profile screen appears.

3. Fill in the fields as follows:

Field Description

Active

Select this check box to make the account active. An account

must be active for the user to log in to it.

User Login

Enter a username for the user.

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Authentication

Select SpeechMiner UI if you want the username and password to be

managed by SpeechMiner UI and stored in SpeechMiner UI's database.

Select Windows if the user logs into SpeechMiner UI using the same

username and password used to log in to Windows. The fields

required to configure the selected option are displayed.

Old Password

This field is not relevant to new accounts. This field only

appears if SpeechMiner UI is selected under Authentication.

New Password

Type a password for the account.

This field only appears if SpeechMiner UI is selected under

Authentication.

Verify Password

Type the password for the account again to ensure it was

typed correctly. This field only appears if SpeechMiner UI is

selected under Authentication.

User must change password

at next login

Select this option to require the user to change their

password the next time they log in to SpeechMiner UI.

This field only appears if SpeechMiner UI is selected

under Authentication.

Windows Domain

Type the name of the Windows domain in which the

user's account is managed. This field only appears if

Windows is selected under Authentication.

User Roles

Select the user roles to associate with the account.

These roles define the permissions the user will

have in SpeechMiner UI. For additional information,

see Administer Roles. If roles appear in the list but

are not active, you do not have the permissions

required to assign these roles to users.

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User Groups

Select the groups to associate with the account.

Each group represents a set of work groups

and/or partitions that identify which interaction

data the user will be able to access. For additional

information, see Administer Groups.

User Partitions

Select the work groups and/or partitions from which

you want to access interaction data.

First Name

Enter the user's first name.

Last Name

Enter the user's last name.

Title

Enter the user's title.

Organization

Enter the organization the user works for.

Phone

Enter the user's phone number.

Enter the user's e-mail address.

Home Page

Enter the address of any page in the SpeechMiner UI

web interface to make that page the user's

homepage. Enter the address in the following

format: /pages/[page location].

You can copy the page address from the end of the

browser's Address field when the page is open.

For example, if you want to use the Templates page

as the homepage, and the address of

the New Search page is:

http://myserver/SpeechMiner

UI/pages/ui/#/reports/templates,

you would remove the base of the address

(enter http://myserver/SpeechMiner UI) and

enter pages/ui/#/reports/templates.

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Comments

Enter any additional comments.

Mapping

If the user is an interaction-center agent, select the

user's name in the call center's recording system.

If the user is an interaction-center manager, select

the name of the work group they manage.

You can select the name or work group in one

of the following ways:

1. In the text field, begin typing the name of the

agent or work group. A drop-down list of names that

contain the combination of letters you type

appears. Keep typing until you see the name,

and then click to select it.

2. Click the Browse icon. A list of work groups opens.

3. Click a work group to select it, or expand the

relevant work group and then click the name of the

agent to select it.

Note: Mapping SpeechMiner UI users to interaction-center

agents makes it possible to create a Saved Report for

the "current user." This means that a single Saved Report

can be run by different users to retrieve report data

about themselves, or their subordinates.

For additional information, see Creating a New Report.

Send Email Notification

Select this check box to inform the new user via an email

message that their account is open. The e-mail message

is sent to the address specified in the Email field.

4. Click Save Changes. The new account is created.

The Edit Profile screen closes and the Administer Users screen is displayed.

If you selected to send the user an e-mail notification, the e-mail is sent.

To filter the user accounts:

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

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2. Select Administer Users.

3. Perform one of the following:

If you want to filter by user name type a letter or combination of letters in the Name field. User accounts

that do not include the specified combination of letters will be hidden from the list.

If you want to filter by role, open the Roles drop-down list and select a role or roles that you want to

include in the list.

If you want to filter by group, open the Groups drop-down list and select the group or groups you want

to include in the list. For more information, see Search Filter.

The filter is activated and accounts that do not match the filter settings are not displayed.

To modify a user's profile:

You can modify user profiles as follows:

Modify an individual user profile:

1. In the Administer Users screen, click the name of the user whose profile you want to change.

2. In the Edit Profile screen, modify the profile as required. For more information, see Create a New User

Account.

Note: The User Login and Authentication fields cannot be modified. You may not be able to modify

additional fields if you do not have the permissions to do so.

3. Click Save Changes. The profile is updated.

Make global changes to selected profiles:

1. In the Administer Users screen, select the check box associated with each profile you want to modify.

2. Above the list click More Actions... and select one of the following options:

Mark as active: Activates the selected accounts.

Mark as inactive: Deactivates the selected accounts. These users will not be able to log in to

their accounts. Inactive accounts can be reactivated later as necessary. When you click OK you

will be able to choose whether to delete all the user's saved searches, reports and scheduled

reports or to stop all scheduled reports.

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Add to Role(s): Opens a list of the roles that exist in the system. Select the roles you want to add

to the users' profiles and click Close.

Add to Group(s): Opens a list of the groups that exist in the system. Select the groups you want

to add to the users' profiles and click Close.

Remove from Role(s): Opens a list of the roles that exist in the system. Select the roles you

want to remove from the users' profiles and click Close.

Remove from Group(s): Opens a list of the groups that exist in the system. Select the groups

you want to remove from the users' profiles and click Close.

3. Make the appropriate selection in the dialog box that appears and click OK.

To delete a user:

You can delete existing user accounts as necessary. When an account is deleted, all saved searches, reports and

scheduled reports created by the user are deleted.

If you want to keep these items, but you do not want the user account to be accessible, you can deactivate the

account. For more information, see Edit User Profile.

When an account is deactivated, a user cannot log in to it, but the profile is saved and saved searches and reports can

be retained.

The account can be reactivated later on as necessary.

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Select Administer Users.

3. Select the check box associated with the user account you want to delete.

4. Click the Delete icon .

5. Click Yes. The account is deleted.

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Administer Groups

Groups identify the interaction data that is associated with specific users. When a user belongs to a particular group,

they have access to the interaction data that is assigned to that group. All Interaction Lists, searches, and reports they

access will only include data about the interactions in their group.

Each group is defined as a list of partitions and work groups:

Partitions identify interaction data using the identification system that was used by the recording system. For

example, a partition might include interactions to phone number x, extension y.

Work groups are based on the structure of the call center and identify the user's place in the enterprise's

hierarchy. For example, a work group might be Denver Center, ABC Bank. In most cases, certain partitions

are associated with specific work groups, so it is sufficient to select work groups and the partitions are

automatically included. At times, it may be necessary to add partitions as well.

With the Administer Groups feature you can:

Create a new user group.

Edit a user group.

Delete a user group.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

To create a new user group:

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Click Administer Groups.

3. Click New. A group New Group dialog box opens.

4. Under Group, type a name for the new group.

5. In the tree below the group name select the partitions and work groups to associate with the group.

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6. Click Save. The group is added to the group list.

To edit a user group:

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Click Administer Groups.

3. Under Name click the name of the group you want to edit. A Edit Group dialog box opens.

4. Under Partitions Selection make the necessary changes to the group.

5. Click Save. The group is updated with the changes you made.

To delete a user group:

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Click Administer Groups.

3. Select the check box associated with the group you want to delete.

4. Click the Delete. The group is deleted.

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Administer Roles

Roles are used to create sets of permissions that are appropriate for different types of users. For example, the role of

Administrator is a set of permissions that enables a user to access most system features, including user and system

management and SMART functionality. By contrast, the role of Regular User is a much more limited set of permissions

that is designed to enable agents to see specific interaction data, take part in coaching sessions, and see the results of

certain reports, but blocks access to many system functions.

Users with different roles see different elements of the SpeechMiner UI interface. For example, a Regular User may

not have permissions to see the Tools page at all. In this case, Tools will not even appear in the Main Menu. By

contrast, a user with an Administrator role will see all the pages and all the tabs and screens that belong to each page.

With the Administer Roles feature you can:

Modify a role.

Add a new role.

Copy and modify a role.

Delete a role.

DISCLAIMER: This feature is is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For details, refer

to Supported Deployments.

By default the system contains the following eight roles. You can assign one or more roles to each user. The default

permission sets of each role are designed to be appropriate for the majority of SpeechMiner UI users.

Default Role Description

Regular User

A standard set of permissions suitable for most users, this role permits the viewing of most

pages, playing back interactions and adding comments to interactions. It does not permit

any access to SMART.

Power User

An expanded set of permissions that includes the standard set of permissions assigned to

Regular Users, plus permissions for user management.

QM Manager

An expanded set of permissions for all QM features, plus permission to access the Explore

menu and all reports.

QM User

A standard set of permissions that enable the user to view, edit, complete and export an

evaluation session assigned to the specific user. This user will also be able to login to

SpeechMiner UI and access the Explore menu.

SMART User A standard set of permissions suitable for most users of SMART.

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SMART Power

User

An expanded set of SMART permissions that includes the standard SMART permissions,

plus permissions to release a program that is locked by another user, edit global variables

and directives, update program processing priority, activate and deactivate programs and

export import programs.

Event Audit

This role is aimed at the auditing tasks required to check for the system's quality during the

implementation of new topics.

Administrator Aimed at allowing for administrative tasks such as user and permissions management.

To modify a role:

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Select Administer Roles.

3. Click the name of the role you want to modify. The role configuration dialog box opens.

4. In the Grant Roles tab, select the roles that users with the current role can assign to other users.

For example, if you are configuring the Administrator role, you would most likely select all the roles. But, if you

are configuring the Power User role, you most likely not select the Administrator, SMART User or SMART

Power User, since Power Users do not configure SMART user accounts and only an Administrator should be

able to grant an Administrator role.

5. In the Web Site, Reports, SMART and SMConfig tabs, select the permissions that the role should have.

6. Click Save. The modifications are saved and the dialog box closes.

To add a new role:

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Select Administer Roles.

3. Click New.

4. In the Role text field, type a name for the role.

5. In the tabs select the required permissions.

6. Click Save.

To copy and modify a role.

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1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Select Administer Roles.

3. Click the Copy link associated with the role you want to copy.

4. Enter a name for the new role and click OK. The new role is added to the list.

5. Click the name of the new role. The role configuration dialog box opens.

6. Modify the permissions as required.

7. Click Save.

To delete a role:

1. In the top right corner of the SpeechMiner UI screen, select your user's login.

2. Select Administer Roles.

3. Click the Delete link associated with the role you want to delete.

4. Click Yes. The role is deleted.

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Permission Definitions

Access to SpeechMiner UI features and information is determined by the permissions a SpeechMiner UI user is

granted.

A SpeechMiner UI user can be given one or more permissions associated with the following permission categories:

Web Site

Reports

SMART

SMConfig

DISCLAIMER: The configuration of Profile Permissions is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on

Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.

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Web Site Permissions

The following is a list of all the Web Site permission categories. Refer to each section for a detailed list of permissions

and their definitions:

Action Items

Interactions

Coaching

External

Help

My View

Reports

System

Trending

Users

Miscellaneous

DISCLAIMER: The configuration of Web Site Permissions is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available

on Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.

Action Items:

Edit Action Items - This permission will enable the user to edit and manage action items (that is, SpeechMiner

UI tasks) assigned by default to the Administrator, QM Manager and Power User roles.

Complete Action Items - This permission will enable the user to complete his/her action items (that is,

SpeechMiner UI tasks) assigned by default to the Administrator, QM Manager, Power User, Regular User and

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QM User roles.

Interactions:

Add Interaction Comment - This permission will enable the user to add a comment to a selected interaction.

The user's comment appears in the interaction transcript.

Agents Filter - This permission will enable the user to filter interactions according to a specific agent(s).

Audit Events in Interactions Grid - This permission will enable the user to audit an event in the Interactions

grid. This is a task required to check the system's quality during the implementation of new topics.

Audit Events in Player - This permission will enable the user to mark an event in the Media Player with an

audit rating (for example, TP, FP and SFP).

Interaction Explorer Page - This permission will enable the user to access the Content Browser page where

you can view the interactions associated with specific categories, agents and programs.

Interaction Search Page - This permission will enable the user to select the Explore > Search option and

search for interactions using the Search Filter.

Interactions Administration - This permission will enable the user to manage audit

tasks, reprocess interactions and clean the database of information about terms that were removed from topics.

Define Tags Page - This permission will enable the user to create or remove new tags.

Delete Interaction List Interactions - This permission will enable the user to remove interactions from an

interaction list.

Delete Interactions - This permission will enable the user to delete interactions.

Edit Interaction Comments - This permission will enable the user to edit an interaction’s comments.

Edit Others' Comment - This permission will enable the user to edit all comments in every interaction, in

addition to the comments he/she created.

Export Coaching Session - This permission will enable the user to export an Interaction List and/or a Saved

Search from a Coaching Session.

Explore Agents - This permission will enable the user to select agents when searching for interactions using the

Content Browser options.

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Explore Menu - This permission will enable the user to access the Explore menu and search for specific

interactions by filtering massive quantities of interaction data.

Export Interactions - This permission will enable the user to export interactions.

Forward Interactions - This permission will enable the user to forward interactions to another user. The

message with the link to the forwarded interaction will appear in the My Messages widget.

Interaction ID Filter - This permission will enable the user to show/hide the Interaction ID search filter option.

Partitions Filter - This permission will enable the user to display/hide the partition filter options.

Reprocess Interactions - This permission will enable the user to run an event analysis on all interactions,

specific programs, and topics.

Retrieve Original Interaction - This permission will enable the user to restore the interaction with its original

audio or text file (including all attachments).

Saved Searches Page - This permission allows the user to reuse saved search queries.

Screen Recordings Grid - This permission will enable the user to view and analyze screen recordings.

Search Interactions - This permission will enable the user to search for interactions.

Search Comparison - This permission allows the user to create a report that compares two saved searches.

The result is a report that shows how the two data sets differ.

Similar Interactions - N/A

Tag Interactions - This permission will enable the user to add or remove a tag from an interaction.

User Actions Filters - This permission will enable the user to display/hide the User Actions search filter

options.

View Call Transcript - This permission will enable the user to view and read the call transcript.

Coaching:

Coaching Menu - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and delete coaching sessions.

Create Session - This permission will enable the user to create a Coaching session.

Delete Session - This permission will enable the user to delete a Coaching session.

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Edit Session Types - This permission will enable the user to change a Coaching session type.

Manage All Coaching Forms - This permission will enable the user to edit and delete coaching sessions

created by other users, plus the coaching sessions he/she created.

Manage My Coaching Forms - This permission will enable the user to only edit and delete the coaching

sessions he/she created.

View All Sessions - This permission will enable the user to display all the sessions that he/she has permissions

to see. That is, session in which the user is the creator, coach or trainee.

External:

External Interaction List - This permission will enable the user to view an interaction list in a separate

browser window.

External Player - This permission will enable the user to open and playback an interaction in a separate

browser window.

Help:

Help Index Page - This permission will enable the user to view and use the SpeechMiner UI Online Help

Index.

Help Menu - This permission will enable the user to view the SpeechMiner UI Online Help.

Send Feedback Page - This permission will enable the user to send Genesys Customer Care an email with

feedback about the application.

My View:

Manage All Preset Views - This permission will enable the user to publish, edit and delete preset views

created by other users, plus the preset views he/she created.

My Messages Widget - This permission will enable the user to add, edit or view the My Messages widget.

My View - This permission will enable the user to create and edit a Dashboard.

Report (Drill Down) - This permission will enable the user to edit, add or view the Report widget in the

Dashboard.

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QM:

Add Evaluations - This permission will enable the user to create Quality Management evaluations.

Archive Evaluation Session - This permission will enable the user to archive an evaluation session.

Complete Evaluation Session -This permission will enable the user to complete an evaluation session.

Create Library Item -This permission will enable the user to create and add a new question to the QM

Question Library.

Create Ad-Hoc Evaluation -This permission will enable you to evaluate interactions from the Explore page.

Create New Form -This permission will enable the user to create a new Quality Management evaluation form.

Delete Evaluation Session I Created -This permission will enable the user to delete a Quality Management

evaluation session that he/she created.

Delete Evaluations -This permission will enable the user to delete Quality Management evaluations.

Delete Evaluation Session -This permission will enable the user to delete Quality Management

evaluation sessions.

Delete Form -This permission will enable the user to delete a Quality Management form.

Delete Library Item -This permission will enable the user to delete a question from the QM Question

Library.

Edit Evaluations -This permission will enable the user to change the properties of a Quality Management

evaluation.

Edit All Evaluation Sessions - This permission will enable the user to view, edit and complete all evaluation

sessions, only when the session contains interactions the user has permission to view. With this permission you

cannot view, edit and complete a Shared evaluation session that is not assigned to a user, unless you are one of

the evaluators associated with the Shared evaluation.

Edit Form -This permission will enable the user to change the properties of a Quality Management form.

Edit Library Item -This permission will enable the user to change an existing question in the QM Question

Library.

Export Evaluation Session -This permission will enable the user to export a QM Evaluation Session in a PDF

or Excel format.

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Export Completed QM Sessions Page -This permission enables enables the user to perform a batch export

of QM session data associated with sessions that were completed during a specific date range.

Evaluations Manager Page -This permission will enable the user to view the list of active/inactive evaluations

and create, edit and delete evaluations.

Evaluation Sessions Page -This permission will enable the user to view a list of existing evaluation session and

perform evaluation sessions assigned to him/her.

Forms Manager Page -This permission will enable the user to create and manage forms that enable evaluators

to provide feedback about a specific agent.

QM Menu - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and delete Quality Management forms,

evaluations and evaluation sessions.

Replace an Evaluation Session Interaction -This permission will enable the user to replace an interaction

within an existing evaluation session.

Set default form score to 100% - This permission will enable the user to set the default form score to 100%.

By default this permission is enabled for the QM Manager role and for the QM User role and it is not enabled

for roles that are not QM.

Show Evaluation Session Score - This permission will enable the user to view the evaluation session score. If

this permission is disabled, the user can only

view the evaluation session score if the Show the agent his/her evaluation score option is selected when the

Notify Agent action item (Type: Evaluator Message) is created.

View Library Item - This permission will enable the user to view one or more question groups.

Reports:

Export to Excel - This permission will enable the user to export a report to an Excel document from the

Reports > Edit Report tab.

My Dashboard Page - This permission will enable the user to display summary information about a specific

set of interactions through the use of Views and Widgets.

Reports Menu - This permission will enable the user to generate and edit reports for analysis, view report

details and status and share the data with users throughout the enterprise.

View All Reports - This permission will enable the user to view all saved reports that were created by the user

regardless of their Sharing definitions.

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System:

Alerts Page -This permission will enable the user to create, edit and delete alerts that inform users about

groups of interactions with specific characteristics. For example, a Change alert indicates when the number of

interactions that meet a certain condition change significantly.

Category Statistics Page -This permission will enable the user to view data about each category defined in

the system. For example,

DISCLAIMER: Category Statistics is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For

details, refer to Supported Deployments.

Name: The name of the category and its place in the category hierarchy. This information is displayed in

a similar fashion in the Category Explorer.

Description: A description of the specific category.

Locked By: Indicates if the category is locked and which user locked it.

Expression: A category definition summary. Expression provides a quick way to review the definition

and verify that it is correct.

Active: Indicates whether the category is active or inactive.

Elements Explorer Menu -This permission will enable the user to view details about the available

SpeechMiner UI topics, programs and categories.

DISCLAIMER: The Elements Explorer menu is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on

Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.

Manage Cache Page -This permission will enable the user to reset the cache for all or specific interface

elements such as agents, saved reports, users and groups and so on.

Manage Interaction Queue Page -This permission will enable the user to control the order in which

interactions are processed by SpeechMiner UI.

Manage Categories Page - N/A

Meta Data Manager -This permission will enable the user to change the names of metadata filter options and

metadata columns in the search results so that the names clearly represent the meaning of the data.

Monitor System Page - This permission will enable the user to monitor that status of SpeechMiner UI

modules, start/stop system machines and view system messages.

Program Statistics Page - This permission will enable the user to view a variety of information about selected

programs. For example, the number of topics in the program, lists of topics in the program, the topic save date,

the name of the user who saved the topic, and the list of terms in the topic.

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DISCLAIMER: Program Statistics is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For

details, refer to Supported Deployments.

Purge System Page - This permission will enable the user to safely remove old interactions from the system.

This will reduce the database size and will result in better performance overall.

System Admin Menu - This permission will enable the user to monitor the system and its servers as well as

some of its global features (for example, Preset Views and Monitor System).

System Configuration Page - This permission will enable the user to review system configuration and security

information. This permission will enable the user to better understand the environment he/she is working in.

Topic Statistics Page -This permission will enable the user to view data (for example, Topics' Term Count,

Program Count, and so on), about each topic defined in the system.

DISCLAIMER: Topic Statistics is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on Premise. For

details, refer to Supported Deployments.

Trending:

Export Trending Information - This permission will enable the user to export the Trending Filter results.

View Trending Cluster Task Information - This permission will enable the user to view Trending Cluster

Tasks information. With this permission you cannot make changes to the Trending Cluster Task. When you only

have a View Trending Cluster Task Information permission, using Save As to save a Cluster filter creates a

regular Trending filter.

Edit Trending Cluster Task - This permission will enable the user to change the Trending Cluster Task filter.

Trending Page - This permission will enable the user to view the Trending page. The Trending page is designed

to monitor interactions and identify and explore unexpected trends and problems.

Users:

Activate and Deactivate Users -This permission will enable the user to make a selected user account

accessible or unavailable.

Administer Groups Page -This permission will enable the user to create a new user group, edit an existing

user group or delete a user group.

Administer Roles Page - This permission will enable the user to provide or remove permissions to features

and tools.

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Administer Users Page - This permission will enable the user to add, remove and/or edit a user profile.

Edit Profile Page - This permission will enable the user to change his/her SpeechMiner UI profile.

Edit User Groups - This permission will enable the user to change SpeechMiner UI user group properties.

When a user belongs to a particular group, they have access to the interaction data that is assigned to that

group. All Interaction Lists, searches, and reports they access will only include data about the interactions in

their group.

Edit User Mapping - This permission will enable the user to map users to interaction-center agents. Mapping

makes it possible to create a Saved Report for a specific user.

Edit User Partitions - This permission will enable the user to edit the partition associated with a specific user.

Partitions identify the interaction data using the identification system used by the recording system.

Edit User Roles - This permission will enable the user to edit the roles associated with a specific user.

Reset Other Users Passwords - This permission will enable the user to change another users password

without the specific users involvement.

Tools Menu - This permission will enable the user to access the tools that enables him/her to monitor and

manage the system and its servers as well as some of its global features.

Miscellaneous:

Customer Sensitive Data - This permission willenable the user to display sensitive customer metadata, such

as data attached from CIM, in the SpeechMiner UI GUI.

Data is visible when this permission is enabled.

Agent Sensitive Data - This permission enables the user to display sensitive agent metadata, such as the agent

name, in the SpeechMiner UI GUI. Data is visible when

this permission is enabled.

Note:

Both the Custom Sensitive Data permission and the Agent Sensitive Data permission will not affect

report results. That is, sensitive data will be included in reports.

If you do not want sensitive data to be included in reports you must disable the relevant report. For additional

information, see Reports Permissions.

For details about configuring user access control to sensitive data, refer to the Configuring permissions,

access control, and privacy > Configuring access control and agent hierarchy > Configuring user access

control section in the GIR Solution Guide.

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Reports Permissions

The following is a list of all the Reports permission categories. Refer to each section for a detailed list of permissions

and their definitions:

Administration

Agent Analysis

Data Analysis

DISCLAIMER: The configuration of Profile Permissions is not available in our Cloud offering. It is only available on

Premise. For details, refer to Supported Deployments.

Administration:

Capacity Trend - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Capacity Trend report.

The report is used to monitor the system load and see the extent to which the system can handle new incoming

interactions.

System Alert - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the System Alert report. The

report is automatically generated and saved by the system. It is used to alert users of when groups of

interactions have certain characteristics.

System Load - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the System Load report. The

report is used to monitor the amount of audio hours processed per day or hour.

Usage Tracking - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Usage Tracing report.

The report is used to monitor user activity over a selected date range.

Agent Analysis:

Agent Comparison Reports - TThis permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Agent

Comparison report (by Interaction or by Segment). The report is used to compare agents' performance against

each other as well as against the average value of all represented agents.

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Agent Evaluation Comparison - This permission allows the user to enable or disable the Agent Evaluation

Comparison report. The report is used to summarize the average evaluation score for selected agents.

Agent Trend - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Agent Trend report (by

Interaction or by Segment). The report displays an agents' performance in relation to one or more selected

categories over time.

Auto Fail - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Auto Fail report. The report

displays a list of all the Quality Monitoring evaluation forms that were designated as auto fail for selected

evaluations.

Calibration Score - This permission allows the user to enable or disable the Calibration Score report. The

report shows scores from the Calibration Evaluation form.

Coaching Summary - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Coaching Summary

report. The report is used to summarize the current status of coaching sessions in a pie chart and table. The

report also lists active coaching sessions by user. Items in the list can be expanded to display coaching session

details.

Evaluation Summary - This permission will enable the user to create an Evaluation Summary report.

Interaction Evaluation Summary - This permission enables and disables the Interaction Evaluation Summary

report. The report displays the score for specific evaluation sessions.

Evaluator Evaluation Comparison - This permission enables and disables the Evaluator Evaluation

Comparison report. The report is used to summarize the average evaluation score for selected evaluators.

Performance Profile - This permission will enable the user to create a Performance Profile report. The report

compares either work group or agent performance for a specified category/group of categories to the

benchmark. The benchmark consists of either the work group or agent's average.

Team Comparison - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Team Comparison

report (by Interaction or by Segment). The report is used to compare performance between teams and against

the average value of all teams represented.

Team Evaluation Comparison - This permission allows the user to enable or disable the Team Evaluation

Comparison report. The report is used to summarize the average evaluation score for select teams.

Top and Bottom Performers - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Top and

Bottom Performers report. The report identifies what top performers do differently from the remaining agents. It

is a graphical representation of a comparison of work groups.

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Data Analysis:

Category Comparison Reports - This permission will enable the user to create a report that compares

selected categories.

Category Trend - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Category Trend report.

The report is used to show changes in categories over a period of time.

MetaData Frequency - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Metadata

Frequency report. The report is used to show for a selected metadata field how many interactions in the data

set had each of the values in the field.

Topic Analysis - Audits - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Topic Analysis -

Audits report. The report is used to show the precision with which each topic was identified by SpeechMiner

UI.

Topic Analysis - Trends - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Topic Analysis -

Trends report. The report is used to compare how often specific topics were found in the selected time period

with how often they were found in the preceding time period.

Topic Correlation - This permission will enable the user to create, edit and/or view the Topic Correlation

report. The report is used to provide information about the co-occurrence of a topic.

Interactions - This permission will enable the user to view and create the Interactions report.

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SMART Permissions

The following is a list of all the SMART permission categories. Refer to each section for a detailed list of permissions

and their definitions: