You can choose specific phone lines, including lines not purchased from Zendesk, and use generative AI to transcribe and summarize your calls. After a call ends and the recording is available, generative AI transcribes and summarizes the call. This saves agents time otherwise spent writing call notes during and after calls and helps them move efficiently to the next call.

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You can turn on generative AI call summaries and transcripts for selected phone lines so call recordings are transcribed, summarized, and added to tickets after the call ends. This saves agent time, supports language and intent analysis, and can include PII or PCI redaction, transcript display options, and keyword boosting to improve transcription accuracy.

There are additional costs involved in transcribing calls. See Zendesk number availability and pricing.

You can choose specific phone lines, including lines not purchased from Zendesk, and use generative AI to transcribe and summarize your calls. After a call ends and the recording is available, generative AI transcribes and summarizes the call. This saves agents time otherwise spent writing call notes during and after calls and helps them move efficiently to the next call.

When you turn on this feature, calls are automatically transcribed and summarized, then added to tickets shortly after the call ends. For supported languages, see Zendesk language support by product. Transcriptions aren't available for calls or recordings made before the feature was turned on.

Your call transcripts are analyzed for entity detection and intent, language, and sentiment predictions depending on how you've configured intelligent triage.

Note: If you use entity classification, entities continue to be detected in collapsible transcript and summary comments. However, unlike in internal notes, detected entities aren't highlighted in collapsible comments.

To activate call summaries and transcripts

  1. In Admin Center, click Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
  2. On the Settings tab, click Transcribe and summarize call recordings on tickets.
    Tip: With this setting, call transcripts and summaries are added to tickets. If you have Zendesk QA, you can also send call transcripts and summaries to be analyzed and scored. To do so, activate Voice QA and select the transcribe and summarize setting.
  3. Under Select lines, select the phone lines to turn on transcription and summarization for.

    You can turn it on for all lines or specific lines only. If you don’t see a phone line in the dropdown menu, call recording isn't turned on for the line. Only lines with call recording enabled are displayed.

  4. (Optional) If you want to show call transcripts on tickets, select Show call transcripts on tickets.

    This doesn’t affect generating or adding the call summary; it only controls whether the transcript is displayed on tickets.

    Then, select how call transcripts and summaries are displayed:

    • Add transcript and summary as internal notes: Transcripts and summaries are added as internal notes on the ticket. This option is selected by default.
    • Add transcript and summary as collapsible comments: Transcripts and summaries are added as collapsible comments that agents can expand when needed.

      Both formats are private and aren't visible to end users.

    Important: Manual redaction isn't available for collapsible comments. If your workflow requires agents to manually redact text from call transcripts or summaries, use the internal notes format.
  5. (Optional) If you have the Advanced Data Privacy and Protection add-on, you can configure the following redaction options:
    • Redact personally identifiable information (PII) from transcriptions: Automatically redact PII data, such as names, locations, and Social Security numbers from all call recording transcriptions.
    • Redact payment card industry (PCI) data from transcriptions: Ensure that sensitive credit card information, including credit card number, expiration date, and card verification value (CVV) is redacted from call recording transcriptions.
    Note: Automatic redaction of PII and PCI data from call transcripts works with both the internal notes and collapsible comments formats.
    Important: If these settings are turned on, PII and PCI data isn't redacted from call recording audio files. You'll need to delete call recording files separately to ensure PII and PCI data is not accessible to Zendesk users using the audio player in tickets.
  6. (Optional) If you want to help the transcription service focus on certain words to improve accuracy, select Boost keywords in transcriptions and enter individual keywords (not phrases or strings of numbers) separated by commas.

    Speech-to-text technology often struggles with jargon, names, and industry-specific terms. By identifying these unique words that are common in your calls, you can improve the transcription accuracy.

  7. Click Save.

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