A New Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents (EVA)

kept by eddie mar 25

ServiceNow's EVA framework jointly evaluates voice agents on task accuracy and conversational experience, revealing a consistent accuracy-experience tradeoff across 20 systems.

Async Developer Platform
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