Fantastic customer service from Lee when he set up an automatic answer message system for us. Nothing was too much trouble and he helped to solve our problem very quickly and easily. Thanks for all of your help.
We don’t want that happening to our callers. Adding a little background music or making sure the audio file sounds like a recording will help prevent this.
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Had an urgent recording request and Sophie at Messages on Hold was onto it for me straight away. On this occasion, she was able to make my ridiculous next day timeline request and I'm very happy with the results of the 7 recordings! Great customer service the whole way through. Highly recommend. 7 months ago
Your callers will learn more about your products and services whilst losing their perception of time
You have reached {COMPANY NAME}. Please be assured that your call will receive the time and attention it deserves when we return to the line.
Here’s an example of some royalty-free music that we use both at CD quality and hold music quality.
Mixes of Mozart and Beethoven’s classic symphonies are a great way to keep customers engaged as they wait to get on hold.
We invite you to listen to our Voice, Music and Program demos listed in the playlist below. Music demos are listed first, Program demos are listed next, and our Voice demos are listed towards the bottom. Please click on a demo to hear a short sample.
Verbal Content – generally, you should use 100 words to make up 1 minute of content produced with background music. In other words, one to two paragraphs per minute. The topic can range from product promotions to general company information.
Phone Download – The content is sent through your phone lines and loaded onto the equipment.
You can add wired devices like office VoIP phones or landlines too. After you press "Done" you can start using your business phone number right away.
BDM Voice also offers a number of market-leading call recording and call tracking solutions to enable you to record both inbound and outbound calls. If you’re interested in learning more about our Insight and insight:onsite products then please view our call recording solutions.
Even if you have a VoIP telephone system, your call will eventually go across the PSTN (like the traditional landline calls), where network operators are able to do whatever they like. Plus VoIP and mobile operators use high-compression codecs that degrade the overall quality of the sound. A good codec can take a 9600bps audio stream (toll quality ISDN voice) and take it down to the required bandwidth by a factor of 10 or more.
Totally professional in their approach from initial contact to installation. They were not interested in selling us a system but more providing the right product and service for our needs. The support is excellent on the rare occasions there is an issue. Highly recommend.
Here’s what happens to our two example tracks when we use some amplification to introduce clipping into the mix:
For those still using analogue or digital phone systems, voice on ISDN circuits has a bandwidth of around 4000Hz. The audio from an analogue phone is sampled at 8000Hz, and because of the nyquist theorem, must be low-pass filtered to 4000Hz. So any frequencies in the audio beyond 4000Hz are lost. Interestingly, the human ear and mind are good at recognising human speech, so this is considered "toll-quality" voice, i.e. good enough to pay for. This is the reason why certain vocalised letters are difficult or impossible to tell apart on the phone. For example, the differences between B, P, T, C, etc. are almost entirely above 4000Hz.