Car Dealer Voice AI

What to check before you buy

Three practical questions decide the purchase. Does a booked appointment land in the real scheduler and DMS without a person retyping it, and is the conversation logged in the CRM?

Does the agent announce that it is an AI at the start of the call? The FCC has said the federal telemarketing rules cover AI-generated voices, and several states add their own disclosure and consent rules, so a store with rooftops in more than one state should ask the vendor what it does for each.

And who reviews calls the agent got wrong, how quickly does a correction reach the script, and what does the store see in a weekly report of calls answered, booked, transferred and dropped?

Test it with calls that go wrong. Give the vendor a list of twenty real calls from your own phones, including background noise, a caller who speaks over the agent, a wrong number, a question about a recall and a request the agent cannot fulfill, and listen to how each ended. Ask for the word error rate or an equivalent accuracy measure on automotive terms such as model names and part names, not a general figure.

Questions to put to every car dealer voice AI vendor

• Which actions can the AI take without approval?
• How are hallucinations and opt-outs handled?
• Can every action be audited in the CRM?

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