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12th April 2022
How long is allowed to have dead air in a call ?
Question asked by Safa
Dead air time varies considerably depending upon what you are trying to do. If the customer is going off to find a pen, then dead air time could be 2 minutes. If an advisor is looking up information and the system is slow, it could be 15 seconds.
I think that in Speech Analytics they tend to look for dead air time that is over 10 seconds.
Here are some tips to reduce dead air time.
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Jonty Pearce walked into his first call centre in 1989 and has been hooked ever since. He founded Call Centre Helper in 1989.
He is an Engineering Graduate with a background in marketing and publishing. In 2020 he won the AOP Digital Publishing Award for The Best Use of Data.
He writes and speaks on a wide variety of subjects - particularly around forecasting and scheduling. His in depth knowledge of forecasting algorithms has earned him the nickname "Mr Erlang."
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