Chapter 6 Troubleshooting Personal Assistant

Resolving Problems with Using Personal Assistant

Calls Transferred to Voice Mail Too Quickly

By using the miscellaneous settings in the Personal Assistant Administration interface, you can designate the call pickup time. This determines how long Personal Assistant waits for a call to be picked up before it moves on to the next defined dial rule.

However, users can also configure the call pickup time (by selecting Preferences > Settings from the user interface), and the user setting takes precedence over the setting in the Personal Assistant Administration. For example, if the server setting is 20 seconds, but a user has set call pickup time to 10 seconds, Personal Assistant uses 10 seconds as the call pickup time.

If users state that they are being transferred too quickly to voice mail, check the call pickup setting in both the administrator and user interfaces.

Dial Rules Not Working Properly

You can configure dial rules through the Personal Assistant administration and user interfaces. However, rules configured in the administration interface take priority over those configured through the user interface. Therefore, if a user has configured a dial rule that conflicts with or produces different results from the one you configured as the administrator, the user rules are ignored.

Calls Dropping

Under normal circumstances, users should not experience dropped calls while using Personal Assistant. However, if you have recently changed settings on the Personal Assistant server and saved the settings, the server might have restarted. If you do not have any failover servers, Personal Assistant might have been unavailable during this restart.

If a user is actively interacting with Personal Assistant when the server becomes unavailable, the call will drop. However, if Personal Assistant has already completed its role in the call, such as a successful transfer, the call will not be dropped.

To prevent calls from being dropped while Personal Assistant is being used, limit the changes and restarts to the Personal Assistant server to off-peak times. Also, if you do not have a failover server, consider adding one in order to more reliably support your users.

Callers Hear “We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties, Please Call Back Later”

If users call Personal Assistant and consistently hear this message, there are two main problems to check for:

•Problems with the speech recognition subsystem. The speech or license servers are not running, or the speech package is not available in the expected location in \Speech\Grammar\Static\<Locale>\Pa in the Personal Assistant installation directory. To solve this problem:

–Use the control center (System > Control Center) to see if the speech servers and license managers are running. Try stopping and restarting them to see if this resolves the problem.

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1.4 specifications

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