Avaya CPSEE_TSP500 manual Monitoring Features and Enhancements, Silent Coaching Feature

Chapter 4 Features and Enhancements

Monitoring Features and Enhancements

Silent Coaching - Feature

Silent Coaching is the ability for a supervisor to talk to an Agent without the called party hearing what the supervisor is saying. The agent will be able to hear the supervisor even across calls, conferences, and in-between calls.

In the past, SER switches only supported “barge in”. This is when a supervi- sor barges into the call. A conference is created, and all parties can hear and talk to each other.

Silent Coaching was resisted in the past because it cannot be guaranteed that the called party might not hear what the supervisor is saying. This is due to the nature of the two-wire handset used by agents. It is possible if the two- wire interface to the handset is not perfectly balanced, a portion of the audio received by the agent will bleed over onto the transmit side of the interface, and be heard by the other party. With four wire interfaces – like soft phones, this is less likely to happen.

The ability to selectively perform Barge In or Silent Coaching will require adjunct development. In the interim, a new keyword will be added to the TSP dialing rules (USE_SILENT_COACHING).

If this keyword is set to 1, then the current “Barge-In” feature will be replaced with the Silent Coaching capability. This will allow us to provide Silent Coaching capability to customers before adjunct development is completed.

Turning this feature on or off does NOT require a TSP restart. The keyword can be changed dynamically by making the change in the DialingRules, and activating it using the “load all” command in the AdminTerminal.

Example

SILENT_COACHING 1! Use Silent Coaching as the default.

SILENT_COACHING 0! Use Barge In as the default.

Type “load all” at the AdminTerminal

Rules

•The Supervisor (coach) does not have to establish a monitoring session prior to requesting Silent Coaching. (It can – but does not need to.)

•Only one Silent Coach is allowed per agent.

•Other Monitors on the call will NOT hear the coach.

•If a monitor session is stopped, Silent Coaching will automatically be stopped.

•Silent Coaching is NOT supported for Manual Monitors.

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