SelectVoice Sentiment Detection

Analyse tone, pace and language across customer calls to identify frustration, stress and satisfaction signals, helping supervisors intervene sooner, coach teams better and improve customer experience.

Understand How Customers Feel
Not Just What They Say

Every conversation carries signals that affect loyalty, retention and service quality. Sentiment Detection helps your team understand when calls are becoming tense, when interactions recover and where positive experiences are being created, so managers can support customers and agents more effectively.

How sentiment detection works

From Conversation Signals To Customer Experience Insight

SelectVoice analyses conversation signals and turns them into useful insight for supervisors, service teams and customer experience leaders.

1

Call is analysed

The conversation is assessed for tone, pace, language and sentiment signals.

2

Emotion is detected

The system identifies signals such as frustration, stress, confidence or satisfaction.

3

Changes are mapped

Sentiment shifts are shown across the call, helping teams see when conversations improve or decline.

4

Insights are surfaced

Dashboards highlight calls, queues, teams and trends that may need review or action.

5

Teams can act

Supervisors can support coaching, escalation, service improvement and customer experience decisions.

High frustration, repeat effort

What SelectVoice picks up

  • Customer mentions multiple previous contacts
  • Tone and wording indicate impatience and low trust
  • High risk of escalation or complaint

Supervisor focus

  • Prioritise this call in the live queue for review
  • Authorise a clear resolution path to avoid another handoff

Coaching tip

  • Acknowledge the repeat effort immediately
  • Summarise what has happened so far and what will be different this time

In a live environment, SelectVoice scores every call automatically, surfaces at-risk conversations and helps your supervisors focus on the interactions that matter most.

Rising frustration, expectation mismatch

What SelectVoice picks up

  • Customer feels misled or given conflicting information
  • Trust is weakening and may impact NPS or churn
  • Risk of negative word of mouth if not resolved

Supervisor focus

  • Check previous interactions for inconsistent messaging
  • Support the agent with clear, aligned next steps

Coaching tip

  • Avoid blaming previous agents or teams
  • Re-state the correct position clearly and check understanding
In a live environment, SelectVoice scores every call automatically, surfaces at-risk conversations and helps your supervisors focus on the interactions that matter most.

Mixed sentiment, value concern

What SelectVoice picks up

  • Positive on service quality, negative on cost
  • Customer is at risk if pricing pressure continues
  • Opportunity for retention or upsell to a better-fit plan

Supervisor focus

  • Flag for retention or account review
  • Offer options that protect value without eroding trust

Coaching tip

  • Reinforce the value they are already seeing
  • Explore usage and suggest plans that fit their pattern
In a live environment, SelectVoice scores every call automatically, surfaces at-risk conversations and helps your supervisors focus on the interactions that matter most.

Strong positive experience

What SelectVoice picks up

  • Clear expression of gratitude and relief
  • High potential for advocacy or testimonial
  • Good example for coaching other agentsWhat SelectVoice picks up

Supervisor focus

  • Use this call as a positive coaching example
  • Consider asking for a review or case study where appropriate

Coaching tip

  • Highlight what the agent did to create this outcome
  • Encourage similar language and structure on future calls
In a live environment, SelectVoice scores every call automatically, surfaces at-risk conversations and helps your supervisors focus on the interactions that matter most.

Critical churn risk

What SelectVoice picks up

  • Explicit cancellation threat
  • Emotionally charged language and pressure
  • Very high value for supervisor intervention

Supervisor focus

  • Immediately prioritise and, where possible, join the call
  • Give the agent clear authority to recover the situation

Coaching tip

  • Stay calm and avoid defensive language
  • Move quickly to outline concrete options and next steps
In a live environment, SelectVoice scores every call automatically, surfaces at-risk conversations and helps your supervisors focus on the interactions that matter most.

How It Works

Listen & Analyse

Interpret Emotion

Visualise & Act

Built To Improve Service Insight Over Time

Sentiment Detection continuously learns from real-world conversations to enhance accuracy. Each call sharpens emotional recognition, helping businesses respond with greater empathy and precision.

  • Adaptive AI that evolves with every conversation
  • Accurate tone and intent mapping for faster response
  • Continuous feedback loop for model refinement

Insights you can act on

Real-time dashboards turn sentiment data into actionable insights, revealing customer mood trends and helping teams intervene when it matters most.
  • Live sentiment dashboards and performance trends
  • Exportable reports for CRM and analytics tools
  • Emotion-driven service improvements and coaching

See it in action

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FAQs

SelectVoice Sentiment Detection is feature included with the AI Capture pack. It analyses every call for emotional signals such as stress, frustration and satisfaction. It gives supervisors and managers a live view of how conversations are going, so they can step in early, coach agents and protect customer relationships.

After a call, the system analyses tone, pace and language patterns alongside the words being spoken. It scores sentiment and flags calls where emotion is trending negative or sharply changing. Supervisors can see this in dashboards or wallboards and act while the customer is still on the line.

Accuracy depends on call quality, background noise, language and call type, but the models are trained on large datasets. The aim is not to be perfect on every sentence, but to reliably surface patterns and calls that are worth a supervisor’s attention. You should treat it as decision support, not a single source of truth.

Yes. Sentiment detection can help supervisors identify calls where frustration is rising, giving teams an opportunity to review, support or intervene before issues become formal complaints.

Yes. Sentiment timelines and trend reports can help managers identify coaching moments, understand where calls became tense and highlight techniques that helped recover conversations.

Yes. Sentiment data can be used to understand trends across teams, queues, products or call types, helping managers identify where customer experience is improving or where support is needed.

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See how SelectVoice Sentiment Detection can help your team identify frustration earlier, coach agents with better context and improve customer experience using live emotional insight.

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