The Voice Loop
- Humans behind the machine
- Conversations with the founders and engineers shaping how we talk to technology.
- Across the voice stack
- Exploring every layer of voice tech, from signal to system.
- Systems that scale
- How top teams design and deploy voice technology that holds up in production.
All episodes
Each release is tailored to the workflows we see across Hamming's customer base: testing, monitoring, analytics, and the operational glue that ties them together.
- EP 01
October 31, 2025Beyond Benchmarks: What’s Next for Voice Agent QA in 2025
Lily Clifford
Founder & CEO, Rime LabsSumanyu Sharma sits down with Lily Clifford to unpack enterprise Voice AI deployment, from pre-production testing to how public benchmarks shape vendor evaluation.
- Benchmarks
- Enterprise QA
- Voice AI deployment
- EP 02
November 14, 2025Building the Audio Quality Layer for Voice AI
Fabian Seipel
Co-founder, ai-cousticsThis week, we sit down with Fabian Seipel, co-founder of ai-coustics, to discuss how they're building the audio quality layer for Voice AI.
- Signal processing
- Audio quality
- Machine learning
- EP 03
November 23, 2025No-Code Voice Agents: Democratizing Automation at Scale
Fionn Delahunty
AI Product Manager, SynthflowIn this episode, we uncover how no-code platforms like Synthflow enable businesses to launch scalable, human-like voice agents, without writing a single line of code.
- Enterprise voice agents
- Democratizing AI
- No-code voice agents
- EP 04
December 12, 2025The State of Voice AI: Models, Tradeoffs, and What Comes Next
Zach Koch
CEO, UltravoxSumanyu Sharma sits down with Zach Koch to discuss the current state of voice AI, from model choices and system design to production tradeoffs and where the space is heading next.
- Voice AI models
- System design
- Production tradeoffs
- EP 05
January 13, 2026Can 15 Seconds of Speech Reveal Your Health?
Dr. Emilia Molimpakis & Dr. Stefano Goria
Co-founders, ThymiaThymia's founders explain how voice biomarkers detect depression, diabetes, and fatigue, and why automotive manufacturers are replacing cameras with microphones for driver safety.
- Voice biomarkers
- Health tech
- Driver safety
- EP 06
January 30, 2026Building Enterprise Voice Agents in Europe
Ronald van der Looy
Co-founder, VersaiaRonald van der Looy shares what it takes to build enterprise voice agents in Europe, from earning trust after early chatbot failures to solving the Dutch language challenges that break most STT providers.
- Enterprise voice AI
- Multilingual STT
- European markets
- EP 07
February 18, 2026CX Lessons from 35 Years in Contact Centers
Brian Jeppesen
Contact center leaderBrian Jeppesen shares lessons from 35+ years in contact centers, including why customer effort beats NPS, how to QA virtual assistants, and what it takes to deploy voice AI that reduces friction.
- Contact center CX
- Voice AI QA
- Customer effort