Hamming AI Integrates with Hume AI for Enhanced Voice Agent Monitoring

Sumanyu Sharma
Sumanyu Sharma
Founder & CEO
, Voice AI QA Pioneer

Has stress-tested 1M+ voice agent calls to find where they break.

December 2, 20242 min read
Hamming AI Integrates with Hume AI for Enhanced Voice Agent Monitoring

Real-Time Emotional Analytics with Hume AI Integration

We integrated with Hume AI. Now you can track not just what your voice agents say, but how callers are feeling during the conversation.

Quick filter: If transcripts look fine but CSAT is dropping, sentiment signals are usually the missing piece.

The Problem This Solves

Here's something we kept running into: customers would send us transcripts saying "everything looks correct, but users are complaining." The words were right. The tone wasn't.

Turns out, a voice agent can say the exact right thing in a way that frustrates people. Short, clipped responses when someone's upset. Overly cheerful when the situation calls for empathy. The transcript looks fine; the experience isn't.

With Hume AI's emotional analytics, we can now surface these patterns. When caller sentiment drops mid-conversation, you can see it. When your agent's tone shifts weirdly, that shows up too.

What You Get

  • Pitch and tone tracking: See how conversations actually feel, not just what was said
  • Caller sentiment: Know when frustration is building before it becomes a complaint
  • Pattern detection: Find the scripts or scenarios that consistently cause negative reactions

Setup

Takes about 5 minutes:

  1. Go to your Hamming dashboard
  2. Open the Monitoring tab
  3. Enable the Hume integration
  4. Add the SDK code
  5. Start seeing sentiment data on production calls

You can set custom thresholds for alerts—"notify me when caller frustration exceeds X"—and track trends over time.

Why We Built This

Honestly, because we kept hitting this ourselves. Transcripts would look fine and customer feedback would say otherwise. Sentiment tracking fills that gap.

Thanks to the Hume team for making this integration possible. If you're curious how it works with your setup, reach out—happy to walk through it.

Frequently Asked Questions

It adds real-time emotional characteristics (like pitch, tone, and rhythm) so teams can measure not just what happened in a call, but how it sounded. This helps teams detect when interactions feel frustrated, confused, or escalatory even if the transcript looks fine.

They’re most useful for surfacing “soft failures” that don’t show up as hard errors: callers sounding frustrated, repeated clarifications, or rising tension during sensitive flows like billing, cancellations, or support escalations. If your transcripts look fine but CSAT is dropping, this is usually why. These signals complement traditional metrics like completion and latency.

Hamming can surface emotion trends alongside call outcomes and voice performance metrics so teams can spot where users struggle and prioritize fixes. Combined with call traces, you can tell whether negative sentiment correlates with latency spikes, repeated prompts, or a broken flow.

Track turn-level latency percentiles (TTFW, p90/p99), fallback and clarification rates, transfer rate, and completion by flow. Emotion signals become most actionable when you can tie them to a concrete breakdown in timing, ASR, intent handling, or downstream tool calls.

Sumanyu Sharma

Sumanyu Sharma

Founder & CEO

Previously Head of Data at Citizen, where he helped quadruple the user base. As Senior Staff Data Scientist at Tesla, grew AI-powered sales program to 100s of millions in revenue per year.

Researched AI-powered medical image search at the University of Waterloo, where he graduated with Engineering honors on dean's list.

“At Hamming, we're taking all of our learnings from Tesla and Citizen to build the future of trustworthy, safe and reliable voice AI agents.”