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Voice Agent QA Frameworks
Actionable frameworks based on Hamming's analysis of 4M+ production voice agent calls across 10K+ voice agents.
Hamming's VOICE Framework
The complete guide to evaluating voice agents across 5 dimensions: Velocity, Outcomes, Intelligence, Conversation, and Experience.
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In-depth guides and frameworks for voice agent testing and QA.
51 resources
Voice Agent Incident Response Runbook: SEV Playbook & Postmortem Template
Operational framework for production teams managing voice AI incidents from detection through postmortem with SEV playbooks, checklists, and templates.
Voice Agent Analytics & Post-Call Metrics: Definitions, Formulas & Dashboards
Complete reference for voice agent analytics and post-call metrics: KPI definitions and formulas for FCR, containment, WER, MOS, and latency percentiles, plus dashboard design patterns and production benchmarks.
Monitor Pipecat Agents in Production: Logs, Traces, Metrics & Alerts
Complete guide to production monitoring for Pipecat voice agents. Covers Pipecat Tail, OpenTelemetry tracing, structured logging with loguru, SigNoz and Langfuse integration, latency dashboards, and alert configuration.
Debugging Voice Agents: Real-Time Logs, Missed Intents & Error Dashboards (2026)
A practitioner's guide to debugging voice agents in production. Covers turn-level log analysis, missed intent diagnosis, confidence score patterns, fallback monitoring, error dashboard design, production call replay, and alerting—with formulas, thresholds, and actionable checklists.
Real-Time AI Voice Analytics Dashboards for Customer Service (2026)
Complete guide to real-time voice analytics dashboards covering end-to-end call tracing, prompt drift detection, automated evals, and KPI benchmarks for production voice AI. Includes component-level latency tracking, quality scoring frameworks, and ROI formulas from analyzing 4M+ calls.
Call Logging for AI Voice Agents: Definition, Taxonomy & Compliance
A comprehensive guide to call logging for AI voice agents covering event taxonomy, GDPR, HIPAA, TCPA compliance, data retention best practices, searchable transcript dashboards, and audit trail requirements.
Build vs Buy Voice Agent Testing: A Practical Decision Framework
A balanced framework for deciding when to build in-house vs buy a voice agent testing platform. Covers time-to-coverage, data constraints, cost profiles, and a hybrid path.
LiveKit Agent Monitoring in Production: Prometheus, Grafana & Alerts
How to monitor LiveKit voice agents in production with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and intelligent alerting. Covers essential metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, and alert thresholds for real-time voice applications.
PII Redaction for Voice Agent Transcripts: Compliance & Architecture Guide
Complete guide to PII redaction compliance for voice agents. Covers HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR requirements, redaction architecture patterns, detection accuracy, encryption standards, and testing strategies.
Pipecat Bot Testing: Automated QA & Regression Tests
Complete guide to automated testing and regression suites for Pipecat voice agents. Covers CI/CD integration, component-level validation, and production monitoring strategies.
Post-Call Analytics for Voice Agents: Metrics and Monitoring
Complete guide to voice agent post-call analytics: real-time data pipelines, 4-layer observability, latency monitoring, automated scoring frameworks, and regression detection with OpenTelemetry integration.
Testing LiveKit Voice Agents: Unit, Scenario, Load & Production Guide (2026)
Complete guide to testing LiveKit voice agents covering pytest unit tests, regression suites, WebRTC validation, load testing, and production monitoring with CI/CD integration.
PII Redaction for Voice Agent Transcripts: The Complete Implementation Guide
Learn how to implement PII redaction for voice agent transcripts before central storage. Covers middleware, NER pipelines, OpenTelemetry span processors, and real-time redaction best practices.
Voice Agent Testing in CI/CD: Regression, Load & Security Testing (2026)
Learn how to test voice agents in CI/CD pipelines with regression testing, load testing, security testing for prompt injection, and HIPAA compliance validation.
Voice Agent Drop-Off Analysis: How to Measure and Reduce Call Abandonment (2026)
Voice agent abandonment averages 5-6%. High performers achieve 2-3%. Learn why customers hang up, how to measure drop-off by turn, and how to reduce abandonment.
Slack Alerts for Voice Agents: Monitoring Latency, ASR Drift & Prompt Regressions
Set up Slack alerts to catch voice agent failures before users notice. Includes alert templates for latency spikes, ASR drift, jitter, prompt regressions, and TTS quality with thresholds, routing, and noise control strategies.
Voice Agent Troubleshooting: Complete Diagnostic Checklist
Diagnose and fix voice agent failures across ASR, LLM, TTS, and tool execution. Learn systematic troubleshooting with logs, traces, and production monitoring.
Debug WebRTC Voice Agents: Complete Checklist & Troubleshooting Guide
Step-by-step guide to debug WebRTC voice agents. Covers ICE connection failures, RTP packet loss, STT/LLM/TTS latency, barge-in issues, and framework-specific debugging for LiveKit and Pipecat with diagnostic checklists and logging schemas.
How to Evaluate Voice Agents: Complete Framework for Testing & Monitoring
The definitive 2026 guide to evaluating voice agents. Learn the 4-layer quality framework, 20+ metrics with formulas, latency benchmarks from 4M+ production calls, regression testing strategies, and production monitoring best practices.
Voice Agent Testing Guide: Methods, Regression, Load & Compliance (2026)
The definitive 2026 guide to testing voice agents. Covers scenario testing, regression testing in CI/CD, load testing, ASR accuracy, multilingual testing, HIPAA/PCI DSS compliance, and production monitoring with metrics, thresholds, and implementation checklists.
Voice Agent Dashboard Template: Charts, Metrics & Executive Reports
Complete voice agent dashboard template with the 6 essential metrics, chart recommendations, thresholds, and a copy-paste executive report format.
Voice Agent Incident Response Runbook: Debug and Fix Failures in Production
Production runbook for debugging voice agents and resolving outages. Covers ASR, LLM, TTS, and telephony failures with decision trees, diagnostic checklists, symptom-to-diagnosis tables, and actionable fixes using Hamming's 4-Stack Incident Response Framework.
Voice Agent Monitoring KPIs: 10 Production Metrics, Dashboards & Alerting Guide
The 10 critical KPIs for production voice agent monitoring with calculation formulas, industry benchmarks, alert thresholds, and remediation strategies. Includes instrumentation framework, dashboard design, and alerting playbook from analyzing 4M+ calls.
Voice Agent Evaluation Metrics: Definitions, Formulas & Benchmarks
Complete technical reference for voice agent evaluation metrics: ASR accuracy formulas (WER/CER), latency targets, task success rates, TTS quality scoring, safety compliance, and industry benchmarks with instrumentation methods.
Voice Agent Monitoring: The Complete Platform Guide for Production Reliability
How to monitor voice agents in production with real-time dashboards, intelligent alerting, and root cause analysis. Includes the 4-Layer Monitoring Stack, metric definitions, and alert thresholds from monitoring 4M+ production calls.
Voice Agent Observability: End-to-End Tracing for AI Voice Systems
How to implement observability for voice agents. Covers distributed tracing across audio, STT, LLM, and TTS layers with OpenTelemetry integration.
How to Add Multiple Languages to Your Voice Agent Without Breaking It
Learn how to add Spanish, French, Mandarin, and other languages to your voice agent while maintaining performance. This guide covers common failures when scaling to multiple languages, how to prevent existing languages from degrading, and proven strategies from 65+ language deployments.
Voice AI Latency: What's Fast, What's Slow, and How to Fix It
A comprehensive engineering guide to understanding, measuring, and optimizing voice AI latency. Learn concrete benchmarks, measurement techniques, and practical optimization strategies for building responsive voice agents.
7 Common Voice AI Edge Cases and How to Test Them
Your voice agent works perfectly in demos but fails in production. Here are the 7 most common edge cases that break voice AI systems, why they happen, and how to systematically test for them before your users find them.
Intent Recognition for Voice Agents: Testing at Scale
Learn how to test voice agent intent recognition at scale using Hamming's Intent Recognition Quality Framework. Includes metrics, formulas, and benchmarks from 4M+ analyzed calls.
Voice Agent Testing for Call Centers: The Complete 2026 Guide
How to test AI voice agents for call center deployments. Covers compliance, scale testing, and quality metrics specific to contact center operations.
Testing Voice Agents: Load, Regression, and A/B Evaluation for Production Reliability
Why manual QA fails for voice agents and how load testing, regression testing, and A/B evaluation ensure production reliability using Hamming's 3-Pillar Production Reliability Testing Framework.
How to Measure Conversational Flow in Voice Agents: The 5-Dimension Framework
Learn how to measure conversational flow quality using Hamming's 5-Dimension Framework. Includes metrics, formulas, and benchmarks from 4M+ analyzed calls.
How to Evaluate Voice Agents: Framework, Metrics, Checklists, and Tooling (2026)
The definitive guide to evaluating voice agents in 2026. Learn the 5-step evaluation loop, 15+ metrics with formulas, common failure modes with test methods, and copy-paste checklists for pre-launch, post-launch, and regression testing.
Why the Best Engineering Teams Choose Hamming for Voice Agent Testing
Engineering teams building voice agents need testing infrastructure that matches their velocity. Here's why teams from YC startups to Fortune 500 enterprises choose Hamming over configuration-heavy alternatives.
Why Voice Agent Teams Need Unified Observability (And How It Complements Datadog)
Voice agent data scattered across tools slows debugging. Learn why native OpenTelemetry observability for voice agents matters—and how it complements Datadog by keeping voice-specific data unified in one place.
What Makes a Complete Voice Agent QA Platform? The Full Lifecycle Explained
Most voice agent testing tools only cover part of the QA lifecycle. Learn what complete voice agent QA looks like—from auto-generated pre-launch testing to production monitoring, call replay, and continuous improvement with 50+ metrics.
SOC 2 and HIPAA Compliance for Voice Agent Testing: What Enterprise Teams Need
Enterprise voice agent testing requires SOC 2 Type II certification and HIPAA compliance. Learn what compliance requirements matter for voice AI QA, how to evaluate vendors, and why security should be pre-configured—not bolted on.
Enterprise Voice Agent Testing in 15 Minutes: No Implementation Project Required
Enterprise voice agent testing shouldn't take months to implement. Learn how enterprise teams can start testing voice agents in 15 minutes with auto-generated scenarios, production call replay, and SOC 2 Type II compliance—no implementation project required.
12 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Voice Agent Testing Platform
Evaluating voice agent testing tools? Ask these 12 questions to find the right platform. Learn what separates complete platforms from point solutions—including auto-generated scenarios, production call replay, custom metrics, and enterprise support.
The Voice Agent Testing Maturity Model: From Manual QA to Automated Excellence
Hamming's Voice Agent Testing Maturity Model: a comprehensive framework for evaluating your voice agent testing maturity. Learn the 5 levels of voice agent QA—from manual spot-checking to fully automated CI/CD testing with 50+ metrics, auto-generated scenarios, and production call replay.
HIPAA, PHI, and Clinical Workflow Testing for Voice Agents: A Compliance Verification Checklist
A practical checklist for validating HIPAA, PHI, and clinical workflows in healthcare voice agents.
ASR Accuracy Evaluation for Voice Agents: The Complete Framework
Learn how to evaluate ASR accuracy using Hamming's 5-Factor ASR Evaluation Framework. Calculate Word Error Rate (WER), benchmark providers, and set monitoring thresholds for production voice agents.
How to Test Multilingual Voice Agents: The Complete Framework
Learn how to test multilingual voice agents with Hamming's 5-Step Multilingual Testing Framework covering ASR accuracy, intent recognition, code-switching, and language-specific benchmarks across 49 languages.
How to Evaluate Voice Agent QA Software: 7 Essential Criteria (2025)
Learn how to evaluate voice agent QA software using Hamming's 7-Criterion QA Evaluation Framework. Score platforms on end-to-end testing, load simulation, multilingual support, regression detection, and more with our evaluation rubric.
How to Monitor Voice Agent Outages in Real Time
Learn Hamming's 4-Layer Monitoring Framework for detecting voice agent outages in real time. Track ASR (WER thresholds), NLU (intent accuracy), TTS (P90 latency), and API dependencies with specific alerting thresholds and synthetic call strategies.
Top Voice AI Testing Tools
Discover the best voice AI testing tools for ensuring quality, reliability, and performance of AI systems. Compare features, capabilities, and use cases.
Why Hamming AI Is the Best Voice Agent Evaluation Platform
Hamming AI sets the industry standard for evaluating AI voice agents. Discover how its unique approach, deep observability, and real-time metrics help teams build reliable and production-ready voice experiences.
Best Voice Agent Stack: A Complete Selection Framework
Use the Voice Agent Stack Selection Framework to choose the right architecture (cascading vs speech-to-speech), components (STT/LLM/TTS), and platform. Includes decision matrix, component benchmarks, and 30-day implementation plan.
How to Evaluate and Test Voice Agents: QA Framework + Checklist
The definitive guide to test voice agents, QA voice bots, and evaluate voice agent quality. Includes the 4-Layer Framework, copy-paste QA checklist, metrics table, and debugging runbook for production voice AI.
Background Noise Testing for Voice Agents: KPIs and Benchmarks
How to test voice agent performance under acoustic stress. Includes noise type taxonomy, 6-KPI framework, and pass/fail thresholds from testing 4M+ calls.
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