Voice AI for Call Centers and Customer Support
Modern voice agents can handle real conversations on phone lines. The trick is sub-second latency, strict guardrails, and smart escalation.
By Saad Alam
Voice AI
Voice AI for Call Centers and Customer Support
The unlock for voice AI in 2026 was streaming ASR + streaming TTS + interruption handling. Without those three together, conversations feel robotic.
Phone-line audio is messy: codec compression, packet loss, noise. Build for that — train and eval on phone-grade audio, not studio recordings.
Escalation policy beats accuracy. A voice agent that confidently says 'let me transfer you to a human' is better than one that hallucinates with confidence.
Measure containment rate (calls resolved without human transfer), CSAT, and per-call cost. AI should beat IVR on all three, not just one.
