Across the Google, AWS, Microsoft and Cisco documentation read for this packet, speech and DTMF are treated as coexisting input modalities on the same conversational agent, with speech-off or DTMF-only as a per-step option, which suggests vendors expect a modernized IVR to remain hybrid rather than speech-only.

inferred · Checked 2026-09-30

Vendor
multi-vendor
Product
conversational IVR platforms
Subsystem
input-modality
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-30
Status
inferred
Checked
2026-09-30

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 30). Modernizing a DTMF IVR to conversational AI: source note ivr-modernization-inf-hybrid-is-default. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/ivr-modernization-inf-hybrid-is-default

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-ivr-modernization-inf-hybrid-is-default,
  title  = {Modernizing a DTMF IVR to conversational AI: source note ivr-modernization-inf-hybrid-is-default},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/ivr-modernization-inf-hybrid-is-default},
  note   = {Source note ivr-modernization-inf-hybrid-is-default, checked 2026-09-30}
}

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