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“Did you know?...as well as providing top quality on hold messages, Media Music Now has a library of around 4000 hand-selected quality tracks of royalty free music; can provide custom written music from a choice of composers; offers professional voice-overs and a whole range of audio editing services including podcast and audio book production”
I agree with you. The music phone service provider use is never the best! Like you, when I switch to my calendar on iPhone and ask my caller to wait while I do that, it would be great to have one of my iPod tracks play to him until I pressed the green bar again to return to the call. Surely one could set that up independently of the phone service provider: just a matter of substituting my music choice for my voice until I clicked back off hold?? May 15, 2009 12:10 AM User profile for user: Tamara Tamara User level: Level 6 (13,735 points) May 15, 2009 4:39 AM in response to DavidJA In response to DavidJA
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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.
VoIP providers also use other audio technologies such as silence suppression, background noise removal, echo cancellation, etc, which also affect the way voice sounds, and on hold music too.
But, if you stay on brand, people will feel safe and understood. They’ll feel confident that they know what the company is all about, and that will make them easier to work with.
I’m not sure that being called “baby” is something that I’m comfortable with, on a phone call with a stranger or otherwise. Nevertheless, it’s in the top 5.
Besides that, its a music player that goes full screen on landscape mode and has a funny sound board. I made a toggle button that hangs so you can use it for hold music during a call. Thus whenver someone puts you on hold just hit the hovering musical note and start playing music. Or play music while someones on the phone with you.
If your phone system(s) or VOiP solution has a built-in MOH player, we can format and deliver your audio file to provide optimum performance. If you are using Cisco, Avaya, NEC, Samsung, or virtually any available system, we’ll determine and deliver exactly what you require.
Unfortunately, it gets worse. Due to general sloppiness when it comes to setting the volume level for music on hold, a form of distortion known as “clipping” can appear, and regularly does if you’re willing to believe personal anecdotal evidence. If you want to know about the science behind clipping, then Wikipedia will tell you everything you need to know, but for those of us who have things to get on with, we can get by just knowing that when something is played too loud down a phone line, the sound starts to distort and sound really horrible.
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Hold music is part of a good customer service model, demonstrating to callers that you care about making their wait a positive experience. It boosts your professional image and increases credibility, particularly when using custom messages …
Sample 3 — "Thanks for holding. Did you know that JK Mortgage has special programs designed to help people who don't qualify for a standard loan? We can customize a loan specifically to meet your needs. Ask one of our certified agents for information. Someone will be with you shortly."
Sample 3 — "Thanks for holding. Did you know that JK Mortgage has special programs designed to help people who don't qualify for a standard loan? We can customize a loan specifically to meet your needs. Ask one of our certified agents for information. Someone will be with you shortly."