Banks struggle with empathy, privacy issues with voice banking

Many of the challenges to voice banking mirror existing issues with the move to digital.
Banks generally aren't sold on the technology for voice-enabled AI solutions, talking about money publicly still remains taboo and security is a never-ending challenge.

Tanaya Macheel | September 06, 2017

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