November 1, 2020

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Bank of New Zealand launches kiwi brand voice with Amazon Connect

Bank of New Zealand launches kiwi brand voice with Amazon Connect

One of New Zealand’s largest banks chooses AWS to transform the contact centre, creating New Zealand’s first natural text-to-speech voice to provide customer service in Kiwi-accented English and some te reo Maori.

Date: 2020-12-01

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