Ryz Labs/Glossary/Conversational AI
Glossary

What is conversational AI?

Conversational AI is technology that lets software hold natural-language conversations with people over chat or voice, understanding what they mean, keeping track of context and responding or taking action.

Definition: Conversational AI is technology that lets software hold natural-language conversations with people over chat or voice, understanding what they mean, keeping track of context and responding or taking action.

Core components

A voice system chains speech-to-text, a language model or dialogue manager, integrations with back-end systems, and text-to-speech. A chat system skips the audio steps. Retrieval supplies company knowledge, and guardrails keep answers on topic and safe.

From scripted bots to LLMs

Earlier chatbots matched intents to fixed scripts and failed on unexpected phrasing. LLM-based assistants handle open-ended language and can call tools to look up an order or book an appointment, but they need testing to stay accurate and consistent.

Use cases

Customer support, outbound and inbound calls, appointment scheduling, internal help desks and guided onboarding. See AI agents vs chatbots for when an assistant should act rather than just answer.

How Ryz helps

Ryz teams built an AI voice platform that has placed over 1M outbound calls (case study). Ryz voice agent developers and chatbot engineers work on your team.

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