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Legacy voice automation has hit a containment ceiling, leaving frustrated customers shouting "AGENT" while operational costs climb.

Five9 Voice AI Agents close this gap by enabling natural, human-like voice conversations that resolve complex customer inquiries. This guide provides a clear-eyed evaluation framework to help your buying committee modernize voice channels with confidence.

This comprehensive guide helps you:

• Evaluate voice vendors objectively using our multi-category enterprise scorecard
• Transition from rigid scripted flows to conversational, context-aware AI interactions
• Unify virtual and human agents on a single cloud platform

Reduce development backlog by launching new voice use cases in days

AI adoption is no longer the hurdle. Five9's 2026 Business Decision Maker Report surveys 500+ business leaders and 1,000+ consumers to map where AI investment is delivering measurable value — and where execution gaps are widening.

The findings are clear: there is no universal CX AI playbook. How you implement, orchestrate, and govern AI defines whether your organization leads or lags.

What you'll find inside:

• How AI is delivering real results in CX — and where the experience still falls short for customers
• Why you might prefer a human — and what that preference is telling businesses about AI
• Where the handoff from AI to a real person makes or breaks your trust in a brand
• What both sides of the conversation — business and customer — need from AI to get it right