Appear Speech Jury Telephony Appearance System

Appear enables your jury office to be pro-active instead of re-active. It improves service to your jurors while also improving the productivity of your jury staff. Unlike other voice response systems Appear features the AJIS^® Appear Desktop, a client program for your jury office PCs that allows users immediate dashboard control of all system functions in real-time using a rich graphical interface. Users can:

• Assign any message to any combination of jurors using a variety of sort and filter methods.
• Schedule any one of several automated outbound reminder messages to call who you want, when you want, and say exactly what you want.
• Choose from several pre-recorded messages with adjustable dates and times for call-in instructions AND for automated outbound calls.
• Record your own messages for both call-in instructions and outbound calls AND change these messages from home.
• Set overriding division-specific bulletin messages for emergency court closures or jurors who simply call too early.
• View inbound call volume and outbound call results graphs for quick review of system performance and effectiveness.

Appear Speech Benefits

• Increase Juror Attendance - Appear places outbound reminder calls and includes answering machine detection to leave reminders and notifications as answering machine recordings. Because of the increased juror attendance, jury pool padding is practically eliminated.
• Improve Jury Customer Service - Jurors hear their individual reporting instructions in a brief phone call averaging 60 seconds or less. They can receive the status of their request to be excused or deferred immediately. Jurors no longer experience busy signals common in other mailbox systems that use lengthy broadcast messages for entire pools or panels. The Appear Web offers the added convenience of using the Internet to perform all these tasks and more.
• Increase Jury Office Productivity - Jury personnel are freed from answering routine reporting question calls. The need for preparing, printing and mailing written responses for deferral and excusal requests can be virtually eliminated.
• Reduce Costs - Appear can substantially decrease postage costs due to a major reduction of written notifications sent out to jurors. Additionally, since jury pool padding is drastically reduced, the cost of paying unused jurors is virtually eliminated.
• Ease of Use - VoiceMetrix designed the Appear Desktop software side-by-side with jury office staff members for intuitive and easy to use screen designs. You will find all daily functions a breeze to complete.