
Digital humans: The next wave of digital banking innovation
50% of banking interactions today are digital, with an uptick of over
18% in the last year alone. However, that still leaves behind half of
the banked population, who either never use their bank’s digital
services or do so infrequently.
What can banks do to migrate these customers to digital platforms? How
can banks engage and personalize digital interactions for superlative
CX?
This is where a digital human comes in.
What are digital humans?
Digital humans are AI-powered, multilingual, and contextually-responsive
CX ambassadors that help make humanized digital interactions a reality.
They are much more than just animated avatars. Backed by a digital brain
and NLP engine, digital humans can converse and intelligently guide
users towards goal completion. Additionally, with automated agent
handoff, they can optimize customer interactions and provide a true
human + AI experience as and when the need arises.
As a great blend of both artificial intelligence and the human touch,
Digital humans have the potential to be a scalable supplement to human
interaction. They can be domain experts, financial advisors, and support
staff, all rolled into one and available round the clock, with the
ability to serve with multiple customers at once.
“According to a recent report by BCG, the total number of
calls to contact centers from banking customers have
increased by 14%.”
How can banks use digital humans to boost the adoption of
digital channels among customers who require guidance,
without losing out on the benefits of personalized human
interaction?
Digital humans are the future of the banking customer experience. They
can help accelerate digital adoption with a multi-sensory approach, much
like a one-to-one interaction with a human agent. By leveraging
audiovisual elements while guiding customers towards goal completion,
digital humans take out the need for excessive text and complicated
instructions which pull customers away from self-service channels.
Along with guiding users through their customer journeys and answering
queries in real-time, digital humans have the ability to
hyper-personalize customer interactions, helping banks deepen customer
relations. Backed with AI, they can quickly analyze huge amounts of
unstructured data and process complex user information to identify and
predict customer behavior to deliver dynamic persona-based
recommendations.
What are the components needed to make a digital human work effectively?
While the concept of a digital human is both fascinating and filled with
immense possibilities, there are several components that go into making
it a success.
The most efficient solution should be a comprehensive and seamless blend
of:
- Interactive human avatar with multilingual domain-specific NLP
- Multi-platform scalability
- AI-powered digital brain for persona-based customer engagement
- End to end customer journeys with ecosystem integration
Humanized front end with NLP
Interactive digital avatars that can bring a human face to life
digitally with seamless lip-sync, and lifelike expressions including
nods, eye movements, and smiles. Furthermore, the inbuilt
domain-specific NLP module enables the digital human to understand
multiple languages and variations of speech, grasp conversation context,
and respond in a human-like manner without breaking the customer
journey. By interacting with customers in natural language, they guide
users through various customer journeys like a human agent, creating
unparalleled customer experiences.
Watch the video above to see how BankBuddy’s digital human seamlessly
guides a customer through the onboarding process, collects all the
necessary information, and completes eKYC without a long, drawn-out
application filing process.
Embedded across platforms
Deliver consistent banking CX across all channels– both digital and physical, with a digital human that can easily be embedded on multiple platforms. Offer digitized human assistance to customers on a familiar interface which could be the website, a mobile app, mobile browser, kiosk, and holograms (coming soon).
AI-powered Digital brain
Backed with AI and machine learning, a digital human learns
continuously. The digital brain has the unique ability to create a
customer’s dynamic persona, conduct peer persona mapping, and link it to
the current context for hyper-personalized customer engagement.
It creates a higher understanding of the customer needs, identifies user
behavior patterns, and personalizes individual experiences. Based on
dynamic customer persona the digital human can thus enhance CX with
proactive service and provide personalized recommendations to boost
upsell cross-sell revenues.
End to end banking customer journeys with ecosystem integration
With a digital human banks can deliver end-to-end customer journeys across all digital channels and without limiting the digital banking services to just automated customer service or FAQs. Seamlessly integrate with the existing ecosystem, including backend systems, core banking software, contact centers, and partner networks to provide access to complete transactions including money transfer, bill payments, account services, and more.
Human + AI interface
The digital human can help optimize customer interactions with automated agent handoff. It is capable of identifying the need for human intervention during an interaction and automatically routes the customer to an available agent. This includes priority-based routing, language or skill-based routing, fallback request, or depending on the customer sentiments.
The future is ‘humanized’ digital
With the conversational AI market expected to hit the $17 billion mark
by 2025, AI-powered digital humans have reached the beginning of an
exponential growth curve. The banking and financial sector is predicted
to be one of the first to embrace digital humans as a part of their
digital transformation strategy.
With the ability to deliver a humanized end-to-end banking experience-
from transactions & payments, to customer onboarding, real-time customer
support and personalized recommendations, a digital human can guide your
customers throughout their financial journeys without completely missing
out on the emotional human connection.
Enhance your customer’s digital banking experience with an AI powered
digital human.
Read more about how Bankbuddy enables AI powered secure Voice Banking https://www.bankbuddy.ai//AI-based-voice-banking-for-customer-engagement