SumX Call-Centre Speech & Analytics Platform
Turning millions of call-centre conversations into structured, searchable, analysable data.
01Overview
SumX turns call-centre phone calls into structured, searchable, analysable data. It ingests dual-channel call audio and metadata from the call centre's Cisco MediaSense system, then runs each call through a speech-and-language pipeline: voice-activity detection, automatic speech recognition, and NLP including intent detection and sentiment analysis.
From the transcript and audio it derives a rich set of call features: silence percentage, conversation speed, call duration, agent-versus-customer talk share, and forbidden-word usage. Everything is exposed through a multi-filter search dashboard, a QA workspace for quality-assurance staff, and reports for several levels of management. The platform processed more than 10,000 calls a day (over 300 hours of audio), and across the life of the project handled over 5 million calls.
02My role & contributions
I led the end-to-end architecture and development of SumX, owning everything from the audio pipeline to the cluster it runs on.
Speech & NLP pipeline
- Built the flow that pulls dual-channel audio and metadata from Cisco MediaSense and runs VAD, ASR, intent detection and sentiment analysis on every call.
Feature engineering & search
- Designed the extracted-feature set (silence %, talk speed, duration, agent/customer talk share, forbidden words) and the multi-filter dashboard that searches calls by any of them.
QA & reporting
- Built the QA capability for quality-assurance agents and reporting tailored to multiple levels of management, plus specialised RBAC.
Infrastructure from scratch
- Set up the Docker Swarm cluster myself, 20+ services across 12+ nodes, with RabbitMQ for inter-service communication and MongoDB for storage.
- Observability & BI: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Alertmanager for monitoring and alerting, and Metabase for data insight.
03Technology
04Impact
- Converted unstructured call audio into searchable, analysable data at scale: 10k+ calls a day, 5M+ calls over the project.
- Gave QA staff and management new visibility into service quality (sentiment, talk ratios, forbidden words, silence) that did not exist before.
- Designed, built and operated the platform end to end, including its 12-node Docker Swarm cluster, messaging and observability.
Architecture described at a conceptual level; internal identifiers and credentials are intentionally omitted.