Detailed Course Outline
The course includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs.
Module 1: Overview of Contact Center AI
- Define what Contact Center AI (CCAI) is and what it can do for contact centers.
- Identify each component of the CCAI Architecture: Speech Recognition, Dialogflow, Speech Synthesis, Agent Assist, and Insights AI.
- Describe the role each component plays in a CCAI solution.
Module 2: Conversational Experiences
- List the basic principles of a conversational experience.
- Explain the role of Conversation virtual agents in a conversation experience.
- Articulate how STT (Speech to Text) can determine the quality of a conversation experience.
- Demonstrate and test how Speech adaptation can improve the speech recognition accuracy of the agent.
- Recognize the different NLU (Natural Language Understanding) and NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques and the role they play on conversation experiences.
- Explain the different elements of a conversation (intents, entities, etc).
- Use sentiment analysis to help with the achievement of a higher-quality conversation experience.
- Improve conversation experiences by choosing different TTS voices (Wavenet vs Standard).
- Modify the speed and pitch of a synthesized voice.
- Describe how to leverage SSML to modify the tone and emphasis of a synthesized passage.
Module 3: Fundamentals of Designing Conversations
- Identify user roles and their journeys.
- Write personas for virtual agents and users.
- Model user-agent interactions.
Module 4: Dialogflow Product Options
- Describe two primary differences between Dialogflow Essentials (ES) and Dialogflow Customer Experience (CX).
- Identify two design principles for your virtual agent which apply regardless of whether you implement in Dialogflow ES or CX.
- Identify two ways your virtual agent implementation changes based on whether you implement in Dialogflow ES or CX.
- List the basic elements of the Dialogflow user interface.
Module 5: Course Review
- Review what was covered in the course as relates to the objectives.
Module 6: Fundamentals of Building Conversations with Dialogflow CX
- List the basic elements of the Dialogflow CX User Interface.
- Create entities.
- Create intents and form fill entities in training phrases.
- Train the NLU model through the Dialogflow console.
- Build a basic virtual agent to handle identified user journeys.
Module 7: Scaling with Standalone Flows
- Recognize the scenarios in which standalone flows can help scale your virtual agent.
- Implement a flow that uses other flows.
Module 8: Using Route Groups for Reusable Routes
- Define the concept of route groups with respect to Dialogflow CX.
- Create a route group.
- Recognize the scenarios in which route groups should be used.
- Identify the possible scope of a route group.
- Implement a flow that uses a route group.
Module 9: Course Review
- Review what was covered in the course as relates to the objectives.
Module 10: Testing and Logging
- Use Dialogflow tools for troubleshooting.
- Use Google Cloud tools for debugging your virtual agent.
- Review logs generated by virtual agent activity.
- Recognize ways an audit can be performed.
Module 11: Taking Actions with Fulfillment
- Characterize the role of fulfillment with respect to Contact Center AI.
- Implement a virtual agent using Dialogflow ES.
- Use Cloud Firestore to store customer data.
- Implement fulfillment using Cloud Functions to read and write Firestore data.
- Describe the use of Apigee for application deployment.
Module 12: Integrating Virtual Agents
- Describe how to use the Dialogflow API to programmatically create and modify the virtual agent.
- Describe connectivity protocols: gRPC, REST, SIP endpoints, and phone numbers over PSTN.
- Describe how to replace existing head intent detection on IVRs with Dialogflow intents.
- Describe virtual agent integration with Google Assistant.
- Describe virtual agent integration with messaging platforms.
- Describe virtual agent integration with CRM platforms (such as Salesforce and Zendesk).
- Describe virtual agent integration with enterprise communication platforms (such as Genesys, Avaya, Cisco, and Twilio).
- Explain the ability that telephony providers have of identifying the caller and how that can modify the agent design.
- Describe how to incorporate IVR features in the virtual agent.
Module 13: Course Review
- Review what was covered in the course as relates to the objectives.
Module 14: Environment Management
- Create Draft and Published versions of your virtual agent.
- Create environments where your virtual agent will be published.
- Load a saved version of your virtual agent to Draft.
- Change which version is loaded to an environment.
Module 15: Drawing Insights from Recordings with SAF
- Analyze audio recordings using the Speech Analytics Framework (SAF).
Module 16: Intelligence Assistance for Live Agents
- Recognize use cases where Agent Assist adds value.
- Identify, collect and curate documents for knowledge base construction.
- Describe how to set up knowledge bases.
- Describe how FAQ Assist works.
- Describe how Document Assist works.
- Describe how the Agent Assist UI works.
- Describe how Dialogflow Assist works.
- Describe how Smart Reply works.
- Describe how Real-time entity extraction works.
Module 17: Compliance and Security
- Describe two ways security can be implemented on a CCAI integration.
- Identify current compliance measures and scenarios where compliance is needed.
Module 18: Best Practices
- Convert pattern matching and decision trees to smart conversational design.
- Recognize situations that require escalation to a human agent.
- Support multiple platforms, devices, languages, and dialects.
- Use Diagflow’s built-in analytics to assess the health of the virtual agent.
- Perform agent validation through the Dialogflow UI.
- Monitor conversations and Agent Assist.
- Institute a DevOps and version control framework for agent development and maintenance.
- Consider enabling spell correction to increase the virtual agent's accuracy.
Module 19: Implementation Methodology
- Identify the stages of the Google Enterprise Sales Process.
- Describe the Partner role in the Enterprise Sales Process.
- Detail the steps in a Contact Center AI project using Google’s ESP.
- Describe the key activities of the Implementation Phase in ESP.
- Locate and understand how to use Google's support assets for Partners.
Module 20: Course Review
- Review what was covered in the course as relates to the objectives.