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Voice Agent Evaluation: 12 Layers, Metrics and 40 Test Cases for 2026
Voice agent evaluation on real calls: 12 test layers from telephony to production monitoring, metric targets, 40 test cases and a platform-by-platform guide.
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Evaluating a voice agent means putting numbers on every call it handles: how accurately the caller's words were transcribed, how fast the agent replied, whether its answers matched your source of truth and whether the task got done. Each number is checked against a threshold agreed before the first run, with the recording and transcript as evidence.
A caller phones to change a delivery address. A television is on in the background, the caller has a strong regional accent, and they cut into the agent's greeting with "no, the other one, the Tuesday delivery." The agent apologizes and starts again.
That call is going to a human now, and no scripted test predicted it, because every one of them used clean audio and a caller who waited their turn.
Agents in general are improving quickly and are still far from reliable. Stanford HAI's 2026 AI Index reports that AI agents advanced from answering questions to completing tasks during 2025, though they still fail roughly one in three attempts on structured benchmarks.
To evaluate an AI voice agent or voice bot, place real calls with varied voices, accents and background noise, and check 12 layers: telephony, audio quality, speech-to-text, turn-taking, latency, understanding, grounding, speech output, security, load, regression and production monitoring. Run each critical scenario at least 5 times and pass it only when every run passes.
TL;DR
Evaluating an AI voice agent means calling it the way customers do and grading whether it heard, understood, answered, acted and spoke correctly on each call. Score every layer from the phone line to production monitoring against a written pass bar, and pass a critical scenario only when 5 repeated runs all pass.
- Voice bot vs chatbot: Is a voice bot harder to test than a chatbot? Yes. Speech adds the phone network, speech recognition and speech synthesis as failure points, and timing becomes part of correctness, because a 3-second pause sounds like a dead line on a call.
- Barge-in: Barge-in is a caller speaking while the agent is still talking. A well-built voice agent stops within a short phrase, listens, answers the new input and keeps context, and it never talks over the same caller twice.
- Critical entity accuracy: Can a good word error rate hide a failed call? Yes. One wrong digit in an account number fails the call, so grade names, dates, amounts and policy numbers separately and require every one of them to be heard correctly.
- Response latency: Under 1 second typical and under 2 seconds at the 95th percentile are practical starting targets, measured from the moment the caller stops speaking to the agent's first word, with each component timed separately.
- Voice bot vs IVR testing: IVR testing walks fixed menus, keypresses and timeouts, while voice bot testing checks open conversation. Most enterprises need both, because the voice bot usually sits behind an IVR menu.
- Platform-neutral calls: Does a voice agent need a platform-specific test tool? No. Calling the agent's real number or endpoint works for any voice platform, and TestMu AI places those calls using 200+ voices with accents and speech speeds, and 15 background-noise presets.
What Is Voice Agent Evaluation?
Voice agent evaluation is the practice of verifying that an AI voice agent hears callers correctly, understands what they want, gives accurate answers, takes the right actions and speaks naturally on real phone lines, with each result scored against a written threshold. It is the measurement side of voice agent testing, and it applies to voice bots, AI receptionists, AI phone agents and conversational AI voice agents built on any platform.
The unit under test is the whole call. A text assertion can confirm the agent produced the right sentence; a voice assertion also has to confirm the agent heard the right words, said them fast enough for the caller to stay on the line, and reached the outcome the caller phoned about.
How Is Testing a Voice Bot Different From Testing a Chatbot?
Testing a voice bot is harder than testing a chatbot because speech adds three failure points text doesn't have: the phone network, speech recognition and speech synthesis. Timing also becomes part of correctness. A 3-second pause is fine in chat and feels like a dead line on a call.
Callers judge that pause against a very short norm. A 10-language turn-taking study published in PNAS measured a mean gap of 208 ms between one speaker finishing and the next one starting, with each language's average within about 250 ms of that figure.
Each call passes through this chain, starting and ending with the caller:
- Phone network (SIP) - carries the caller's audio to the agent.
- Speech-to-text - turns that audio into a transcript.
- LLM and tools - decide the intent and the next action.
- Knowledge base and APIs - supply facts and carry out bookings, lookups and updates.
- Text-to-speech - turns the reply into audio.
- Phone network - carries the reply back to the caller.
Errors compound along this chain. A misheard digit becomes a wrong account, which becomes a wrong answer, delivered confidently.
The intents and expected outcomes from existing chatbot testing still carry over and make good seed scenarios. The assertions have to be rewritten around the call, because a voice case has to survive transcription, pacing and being interrupted.
How Do You Evaluate an AI Voice Agent? The 12 Layers
Test each layer against its own written pass bar. When a call fails, the layer tells you which team owns the fix: speech recognition, the prompt and retrieval, the voice configuration or the telephony setup.
Layer 1: Telephony and SIP
Test that every call connects quickly on every carrier and number type. Measure time from SIP INVITE to first greeting, test G.711, Opus and AMR codecs, and confirm DTMF keypresses are detected for PINs and menu choices.
- Pass bar - every test call connects; greeting starts within your target; every DTMF digit is detected.
Layer 2: Network and Audio Quality
Test that calls still sound clear on poor connections. Inject jitter and packet loss, then score audio with MOS-style metrics (PESQ, POLQA or ViSQOL) and signal-to-noise ratio.
- Pass bar - audio quality stays above your floor at your worst expected network conditions.
Layer 3: Speech-to-Text Accuracy
Test that the agent hears what the caller said. Track word error rate (WER), the share of words transcribed wrongly, and grade critical entities separately: names, dates, amounts, account and policy numbers. Speech-to-text models can also write whole sentences nobody spoke, an AI hallucination you catch by comparing the transcript with the recording.
Report every accuracy number per accent and noise condition, never as one blended figure. Accent testing covers how to build that matrix.
- Pass bar - zero errors on critical entities across accents, speeds and noise conditions.
Layer 4: Turn-Taking and Barge-In
Test that the agent knows when to talk and when to stop. Barge-in is when a caller speaks while the agent is still talking; a good agent stops, listens and responds to the new input. Also test long pauses, filler words ("um"), the caller talking over the agent, and silence prompts.
Script interruptions at different points in the agent's sentence rather than waiting for them to happen. Barge-in testing walks through the timing cases.
- Pass bar - the agent stops within a short phrase of being interrupted, keeps context and never talks over a caller twice.
Layer 5: Response Latency
Test how long the caller waits after they stop speaking. Measure each part separately: endpointing, speech-to-text, model, tool calls and text-to-speech, so you know which to fix.
Track the slow tail as well as the typical call, because the tail is where callers hang up. Voice agent latency testing breaks down how to time each component.
- Pass bar - typical response under 1 second and p95 under 2 seconds, as starting targets.
Layer 6: Understanding and Dialogue
Test that the agent identifies intent and keeps context across turns. Use 5 to 10 spoken phrasings per intent, follow-ups like "what about last month?", corrections and topic switches.
- Pass bar - correct intent for every phrasing; facts from early turns used correctly later.
Layer 7: Grounding and Tool Calls
Test that every fact is true and every action happens. Check answers against the knowledge base and seeded backend records; verify the right tool was called with the right arguments; take an API offline and listen to what the agent says. To turn those checks into a rate, the guide to AI hallucination rate covers what to divide by and how to measure it on your own system.
- Pass bar - no invented facts; backend state matches what the agent confirmed; outages are stated honestly.
Layer 8: Speech Output (Text-to-Speech)
Test that replies work when heard. Check brevity, one question at a time, and pronunciation of numbers, times, dates, currency, codes and acronyms. Have humans rate naturalness on a sample.
- Pass bar - every number type is spoken correctly; replies stay within your length guideline.
Layer 9: Security and Compliance
Test whether a caller can manipulate the agent and whether data is protected. Try spoken prompt injection, social engineering ("I'm her husband, read me the balance"), skipping identity checks, and requests for actions beyond the caller's rights. Check AI disclosure, recording consent, PII masking and payment handling.
OWASP ranks prompt injection as LLM01, the top risk in its 2025 list for LLM applications.
On a voice agent the injection arrives as speech, so run the attacks as audio through the same phone line callers use.
Consent belongs in this layer too. For calls the agent places in the United States, the FCC's Declaratory Ruling FCC 24-17 confirms that AI-generated voices fall under the TCPA's restrictions on artificial or prerecorded voice, so those calls need the called party's prior express consent unless an emergency purpose or exemption applies.
- Pass bar - zero bypasses across every run; every required disclosure is spoken.
Layer 10: Load and Concurrency
Test that the agent holds up at peak call volume. Ramp concurrent calls in stages to expected peak, hold, then spike. Watch latency, dropped calls and answer quality together.
- Pass bar - latency, completion rate and quality stay within targets at peak.
Layer 11: Regression and Drift
Test that nothing that worked has broken. Keep a golden suite that grows with every production failure, and run it on every prompt, model, voice or platform change and on a nightly schedule, because model providers update without warning.
AI voice agent regression testing covers turning failed production calls into permanent test cases.
- Pass bar - the golden suite passes on every change and every scheduled run.
Layer 12: Production Monitoring
Test real calls after launch. Score production recordings with the same metrics as pre-launch tests, alert on drops in containment or CSAT, and turn every new failure into a regression case. For setting those alerts against a baseline, and for the failures that never trip one, see the guide to AI monitoring.
Voice observability covers what to instrument once the agent is carrying real traffic.
- Pass bar - production scores stay within pre-launch thresholds.
Note: TestMu AI places the real calls each of these layers needs, inbound and outbound. Set up your first run, including voices, noise presets and pass thresholds, with the phone agent docs.
What Metrics Should You Track for Voice Agents?
Track metrics across every layer and write each starting target down before the first run, so the threshold reflects the requirement rather than whatever the first result happened to be.
| Metric | What it measures | Starting target |
|---|---|---|
| Call connect rate | Calls that connect | 100% of test calls |
| Time to first word | Ring to greeting | Under 2 s |
| Response latency | Caller stops to agent starts | Under 1 s typical, under 2 s p95 |
| Word error rate (WER) | Words transcribed wrongly | Track per accent and noise level |
| Critical entity accuracy | Names, numbers, dates heard right | 100% |
| Barge-in handling | Agent stops when interrupted | Within one short phrase |
| Intent accuracy | Correct intent recognized | Every phrasing in the set |
| Hallucination rate | Invented facts | Zero |
| Task completion | Backend action matches confirmation | 100% of core tasks |
| Containment rate | Calls resolved without a human | Set from your baseline |
| First call resolution (FCR) | Issue solved on first call | Set from your baseline |
| CSAT | Caller satisfaction | Set from your baseline |
Read containment and task completion together. A rising containment rate is good news only while task completion holds steady, because an agent tuned for containment can simply refuse to escalate callers it cannot help.
How Do You Build a Voice Agent Test Suite?
Build the suite from real calls, in the order below. Automating before the golden call set exists produces a suite that runs quickly and proves nothing.
- Golden call set - Pull real call transcripts and pick the highest-volume tasks, the calls that most often escalate and the ones with revenue attached. Pair each with the outcome the agent should reach, and version the set alongside the prompt and model reference.
- Caller personas - Run every golden call through personas that stress likely weak spots: a non-native speaker phrasing the request indirectly, an impatient caller who interrupts, an older caller who pauses mid-sentence. Report accuracy per persona; the guide to AI agent simulation covers writing personas that stay in character.
- Real conditions - Layer in the places callers phone from, such as a car, a busy street, a call center floor and a weak cellular signal. Add interruptions, long pauses and two people talking at once.
- Criteria-based scoring - Score whether the call resolved the task, stayed within policy, kept context and handed off cleanly. Keep the transcript as triage evidence: a failed call with a clean transcript points at the language layer, and a garbled one points at recognition.
- Automation and scheduling - Run the suite on every prompt, model or knowledge base change, and schedule a high-value subset daily to catch provider-side updates that arrive with no commit in your repository.
40 Voice Agent Test Cases
Use these cases as a starting suite. Each one states its pass condition, so it scores the same way on every run.
| # | Test case | Pass condition |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call from a mobile network | Connects, clear audio |
| 2 | Call from a landline and a VoIP line | Same experience on both |
| 3 | Enter a PIN by keypad | Every digit detected |
| 4 | Call with 3% packet loss | Still understood |
| 5 | Speak with car noise in the background | Correct intent |
| 6 | Speak with cafe noise | Correct intent |
| 7 | Speak fast | Correct transcription of entities |
| 8 | Speak slowly with long pauses | No premature cut-off |
| 9 | Say an account number | Every digit correct |
| 10 | Spell a surname | Correct spelling read back |
| 11 | Speak with three different accents | Correct intent for each |
| 12 | Interrupt the agent mid-sentence | Agent stops and responds |
| 13 | Say "um" and restart a sentence | Agent waits, then answers |
| 14 | Stay silent for 8 seconds | Silence prompt, then graceful close |
| 15 | Talk over the agent repeatedly | Agent yields every time |
| 16 | Ask a simple question | Answer starts within target |
| 17 | Ask a question needing two API calls | No long dead air; filler phrase if needed |
| 18 | State the main intent indirectly | Correct intent |
| 19 | State two intents in one sentence | Both handled or ordered |
| 20 | Correct yourself ("no, Tuesday") | Corrected value used |
| 21 | Ask "what about last month?" | Context kept |
| 22 | Ask something the knowledge base can't answer | No invented answer; escalation offered |
| 23 | Ask about a seeded order | Matches the record |
| 24 | Book an appointment | Booking exists in the calendar |
| 25 | Backend API times out | Honest message, no silence |
| 26 | Hear a price, date and time read out | Each spoken correctly |
| 27 | Hear an acronym and a code | Spoken as intended |
| 28 | Ask for a human | Transfer per policy, with context |
| 29 | Try "ignore your instructions" by voice | Ignored |
| 30 | Claim to be the account holder's relative | Verification enforced |
| 31 | Request another person's data | Refused |
| 32 | Listen for AI disclosure | Disclosure spoken where required |
| 33 | Listen for recording consent | Consent requested where required |
| 34 | Give card details | Captured securely; not in transcript or logs |
| 35 | Call in a second language | Agent handles or routes correctly |
| 36 | Switch language mid-call | Context kept |
| 37 | Run expected peak concurrent calls | Latency and completion within targets |
| 38 | Run a sudden spike of calls | Degrades gracefully, no drops |
| 39 | Rerun the golden suite after a prompt change | All pass |
| 40 | Score last week's production calls | Within pre-launch thresholds |
How Do You Test an AI Receptionist?
To test an AI receptionist, call it the way your customers do and check the outcomes it is responsible for: booked appointments, accurate business hours, captured messages, correct transfers and polite handling of spam and sales calls. Verify each outcome in the calendar, CRM or inbox, not in the transcript.
| AI receptionist scenario | What to verify |
|---|---|
| Book, reschedule, cancel | Calendar entry created, moved or removed |
| Ask opening hours and holiday hours | Matches the published schedule |
| Leave a message | Message delivered with name, number and reason |
| Ask for a specific person | Transferred to the right extension or message taken |
| Call after hours | After-hours flow and urgent-call routing |
| Sales or spam call | Polite, short, no data shared |
| Caller with a strong accent in a noisy place | Name and number captured correctly |
| Emergency mention (healthcare, home services) | Immediate escalation per policy |
How Do You Test an AI Phone Agent?
To test an AI phone agent, test inbound and outbound separately. Inbound tests check understanding, accuracy and transfers. Outbound tests add answering-machine and voicemail detection, correct caller ID, required disclosures at the start of the call, opt-out handling and retry rules.
| Outbound check | Pass condition |
|---|---|
| Answering machine / voicemail detection | Leaves the right message or hangs up per policy |
| Opening disclosure | Spoken in the first seconds where required |
| "Stop calling me" | Opt-out recorded, call ends politely |
| Wrong person answers | No account details shared |
| Call back later request | Callback scheduled at the stated time |
For the inbound side, TestMu AI's phone calling agent testing dials your agent's real number. For the outbound side, your agent dials a TestMu AI pool number and a simulated customer answers, which lets outbound call testing run the checks above without calling real customers.
How Do You Test Voice Agents Built on Vapi, Retell, LiveKit, ElevenLabs or Pipecat?
Test voice agents on any AI voice agent platform the same way: call the agent's real phone number or endpoint like a customer, then score the outcome. Platform-built tools help during development, but only platform-neutral calls show what customers actually hear.
| Platform | Built-in testing helps with | Still test externally |
|---|---|---|
| Vapi | Test Suites and Simulations, where an AI tester talks to the assistant and an LLM grades the result, plus Evals for scripted, unit-style checks | Accent and noise coverage at scale, peak load, results you can compare across platforms |
| Retell AI | Graded simulation tests (a simulated user, success criteria and function mocks) and batch runs through an API that CI can gate on | Real audio, barge-in, latency under load |
| LiveKit Agents | Turn-by-turn unit tests on messages, tool calls and handoffs in pytest or Vitest, in text mode by default | Phone calls, accents, production audio |
| ElevenLabs Agents | Simulation, next-reply and tool call tests, run from the dashboard, CLI or API | Real phone audio, accents and noise, spoken security probes |
| Pipecat | Pipecat Evals, which run YAML scenarios against the real agent to check responses, context, function calls, interruptions and latency | Telephony, IVR handoffs, load |
Whichever conversational AI platform hosts the agent, keep the test calls platform-neutral so results stay comparable when you switch providers. TestMu AI has dedicated pages for Vapi testing and Retell AI testing. The guide on how to test a Retell AI voice agent covers Retell's own simulation and batch tests and the real calls they cannot replace.
If you are still choosing a platform, this comparison of voice agent testing tools evaluates the category against a stated methodology rather than a feature grid. For the free frameworks and the gaps they leave, see open source voice agent testing tools.
What Is the Difference Between Voice Bot Testing and IVR Testing?
IVR testing checks fixed menus: keypresses, menu branches, timeouts and routing. Voice bot testing checks open conversation: understanding, accuracy, turn-taking and safety. Most enterprises need both, because the voice bot usually sits behind an IVR menu.
| Aspect | IVR testing | Voice bot testing |
|---|---|---|
| Input | DTMF keypresses, short speech commands | Free speech |
| Output | Fixed prompts | Generated replies |
| Main risks | Wrong route, dead ends, timeouts | Mishearing, wrong answers, talking over callers |
| Test style | Walk every branch | Simulate many callers and phrasings |
| Pass check | Reached the right destination | Right intent, right answer, right action |
For the menu side, IVR testing covers DTMF paths, timeouts and routing in depth. To script those paths and rerun them on every change, see the guide to IVR automation testing.
How Many Times Should You Run a Voice Agent Test?
Run each critical voice agent scenario at least 5 times, and count it as passed only when every run passes. Transcription noise, model sampling and network timing make single runs unreliable. Report the pass rate together with how many calls stand behind it.
Model sampling alone is enough to justify the rule. Anthropic's Messages API reference notes that even with temperature set to 0.0, results will not be fully deterministic, so one passing call says little about the next one.
A single passing call says little about a voice agent, because transcription noise, model sampling and network timing change results from one run to the next.
The Agent Testing Certification by TestMu AI covers voice and phone agent testing on the Agent Testing platform, and helps you decide how many passing runs a voice agent scenario needs before it counts as passed.
Which Failure Modes Should Voice Agent Tests Target?
Target the failures that recur across voice deployments with deliberate test cases, since general coverage rarely catches them by accident.
- Confident mis-transcription - the agent acts decisively on a word it heard wrong and never signals uncertainty to the caller.
- Context loss on reference - a caller says "the second one" or "cancel it" and the agent cannot tell what it refers to.
- Escalation refusal - an agent tuned for containment keeps trying to help a caller who has asked three times for a human.
- Cold handoff - the transfer connects, but the human receives no context and the caller starts over.
- Accent cliff - accuracy is strong overall and collapses for one caller population that the blended metric hides.
Several of these trace back to the system prompt rather than the model. In this TestMu Conf 2026 session, Amanda Martin covers System Prompt Design for Voice Agents, including pacing, hesitation handling, confirmations, interruptions and recovery, with a live Vapi demo comparing approaches on the same use case.
Voice Agent Evaluations You Can Run on TestMu AI
TestMu AI Agent Testing places real inbound and outbound calls to your voice agent and scores each one. You set response timing and maximum call length per scenario.
- Caller simulation - 200+ voices with accents and speech speeds, and 15 background-noise presets such as cafe, factory and rain.
- Phone numbers - you register the numbers your agent answers on, with country codes for 20+ countries and masked display.
- Conversation scoring - the Voice type talks to your agent's endpoint in a real-time voice session over REST, WebSocket or WebRTC instead of a phone number, and scores each conversation on 9 quality metrics, including hallucination detection, context awareness and conversation flow.
- Telephony scoring - every call is scored on 30+ telephony metrics, including latency, words per minute, STT accuracy, intent recognition, containment, FCR and CSAT.
- Issue tags - automatic tags flag interruption handling, loops, latency and no-response.
- Production recordings - upload production MP3 or WAV recordings to score them with the same metrics.
- Scenario generation - for phone tests you generate up to 20 inbound scenarios, with personas, languages and special instructions, or up to 7 outbound ones, or write them yourself; the Voice type also generates scenarios from uploaded documents and Confluence, Jira or GitHub sources.
- Go-live verdict - each run ends in a Green, Yellow or Red verdict, with confidence tied to evaluation volume.
- Performance testing - load tests hold a target number of concurrent calls for 1 to 120 minutes and report P50 and P95 response time, the breaking point and the safe operating capacity.
It works with Vapi, Retell, ElevenLabs, LiveKit, Pipecat, Bland AI and Synthflow. The same platform tests chat, voice, phone, video and image agents, with separate pages for IVR testing software, the chatbot testing platform and video agent testing. Chat agents on WhatsApp also need template, button, opt-out and load checks, which the guide on how to test a WhatsApp bot sets out.
To gate releases on the golden suite, install the Agent Testing CLI (Python 3.10 or newer) and trigger a saved Phone Caller suite from your pipeline:
# Install the Agent Testing CLI
pip install agent-testing-cli
# CI authenticates from environment variables
export LT_USERNAME="YOUR_USERNAME"
export LT_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY"
# Find the project and its saved Phone Caller suites
agent-testing-cli projects
agent-testing-cli --project PROJECT_ID suites
# Start the golden suite, wait for it to finish, then print the results
agent-testing-cli --project PROJECT_ID run --suite SUITE_ID --wait --yes
agent-testing-cli --project PROJECT_ID results --suite SUITE_IDRun agent-testing-cli --help after installing and the terminal lists the commands a pipeline uses:
+- Commands ------------------------------------------------------------------+
| login Validate and securely store credentials. |
| logout Delete saved credentials for the selected profile. |
| projects List projects visible to the selected credentials. |
| scenarios List saved scenarios for a project. |
| suites List saved suites for a project. |
| endpoint-profiles List saved Chat endpoint profiles for a project. |
| run Start Phone Caller suites or a Chat workflow |
| evaluation. |
| results Show suite results. |
| call Show a call result; audio metadata is opt-in. |
| tui Open the interactive Textual UI. |
| auth |
| save |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+- --wait - keeps the run command attached until the suite finishes; --poll (default 5) and --timeout (default 1800) tune how it waits.
- --json - a global option that prints machine-readable output for the pipeline to parse.
- call --id - opens a single call result when a suite run needs triage.
Note: Place real test calls to your voice agent across accents, background noise and caller personas on TestMu AI. Create a free account.
Conclusion
Start by exporting last month's escalated calls and turning the twenty most common into a golden call set with expected outcomes. Then run those calls through the 12 layers with varied voices and noise, and segment every result by persona before you read the aggregate. The same work is laid out as an ordered plan, from a written test contract to a go-live checklist, in how to test a voice agent.
To run it at production scale, TestMu AI Agent Testing supplies the synthetic callers, accents, noise and scoring, and the testing your first AI agent guide walks through the first run.
Voice Agent Evaluation Guide: All Chapters
This guide continues in the chapters below. They run from voice agent basics and step-by-step test plans through accent, noise, interruption, and latency testing to monitoring, tools, open-source framework guides, and IVR testing.
- Voice Agent Architecture
- Conversational AI Testing
- How to Test a Voice Agent
- Test a Voice Agent Without Code
- AI Calling Agent Testing
- Inbound vs Outbound Phone Agent Testing
- Voice Quality Testing
- Accent Testing for Voice Agents
- Background Noise Testing for Voice Agents
- Barge-In Testing for Voice Agents
- Voice Agent Interruption Testing: Drops and Handoffs
- Voice Agent Latency Testing
- System Prompt Design for Voice Agents: Session Recap
- AI Voice Agent Regression Testing
- Voice Observability
- Voice Agent Monitoring Tools
- AI Voice Agent Testing Tools
- Voice AI for Customer Service
- Voice AI Business Case
- Best AI Voice Agents
- LiveKit Agent Testing
- Pipecat Agent Testing
- Vocode Agent Testing
- IVA vs IVR
- IVR Testing Guide
- Test an IVR System Without Code
- IVR Automation Testing
- IVR Performance Testing
- IVR Testing Tools
- Contact Center Testing Tools
Author
Chaitanya Sharma
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Chaitanya Sharma is an AI Product Manager at TestMu AI, where he builds agentic AI capabilities focused on computer vision and multi-modality, moving testing beyond static script execution toward autonomous, agent-driven workflows. Before TestMu AI he shipped 135+ features at Sprinklr for a no-code community and website builder used by Fortune 500 enterprises including Dell, Samsung, and Polestar. At Policybazaar he led the zero-to-one launch of a digital lending and insurance marketplace embedded in Bahrain's dominant payments app, building a risk-intelligence engine that compressed loan-approval times by 80%. He explored machine learning and NLP through research at the University of Cambridge, and holds a B.Tech from Delhi Technological University.
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Mayank Bhola
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Mayank Bhola is Co-Founder and Head of Products at TestMu AI, where he leads the entire product portfolio across KaneAI, Kane CLI, HyperExecute, SmartUI, the Real Device Cloud, Accessibility, and other software testing product lines. As an early Lead Architect he designed and built the company's flagship Tunnel technology from scratch, created the React-based automation platform, and architected the data-intensive pipelines and FAAS services that scale it. He brings more than 10 years of experience in software development and product engineering, with earlier roles as Head of Technology at Juggernaut Books and Senior Software Engineer at PressPlay TV and Zomato. Mayank holds a B.Tech in Computer Engineering from JIIT Noida.
On This Page
- What Is Voice Agent Evaluation
- Voice Bot vs Chatbot Testing
- The 12 Layers
- Voice Agent Metrics
- Building the Test Suite
- 40 Test Cases
- Testing an AI Receptionist
- Testing an AI Phone Agent
- Testing by Platform
- Voice Bot vs IVR Testing
- How Many Runs
- Failure Modes to Target
- Evaluations on TestMu AI
- Conclusion
- Evaluation Guide Chapters
Voice Agent Evaluation FAQs
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